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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Afterwards, deliberation once more gave way to ceremony. Kennedy received the Paris diplomatic corps, then De Gaulle escorted Kennedy on the day's second motorcade?to the Arc de Triomphe, where the President laid a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier...
...returned the visit in 1955 when he came to the U.S. on a lecture tour, and again last March, when he dropped by the White House for a call and a chat. Bobby Kennedy afterward took him on a personally conducted tour of Bull Run. At places and times unknown, he was caught up in the Kennedy clan's family sport. The evidence: interviewed on the BBC last week, he boasted that he was ''one of the few living Britons who understand and enjoy American football'' but conceded that he himself had played "just...
Having got that obvious but long-obscured target into focus, the pamphlet went on to say that "there is no known upper limit to human ability, and much of what people are capable of doing with their minds is probably unknown today." What is known is that "the rational powers of any person"-including the supposedly dull-"are developed gradually and continuously as and when he uses them successfully." Other points...
Never in its history has the U.S. tried to do anything so intricate in so short a time as its missile program. The nation has achieved notable feats in an undertaking that calls for crash construction of the most complicated equipment ever devised. Failures are inevitable in exploring the unknown. Batting averages are not the full test of success in the missile league, but misses do cost millions-and of 193 attempted launchings of U.S. satellites and Atlas and Titan missiles since 1957, only 118 have been completely successful. The original goal of the Mercury astronaut program...
...printing into hospitable bookstores (Scribner and Doubleday, among others, are holdouts) weeks ahead of the announced publication date. All previous attempts to publish the book in the U.S. have ended in customs or post office bans, and for 26 years Cancer and the other Miller Tropic-Capricorn-have been unknown to Americans, except as tourist and G.I. plain-wrapper souvenirs of Paris...