Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge, stable reconnaissance and surveillance "island in the sky" manned by relays of crews. The Proton may be the prototype of a command ship that could control whole fleets of spaceships capable of denying to the U.S. the "near space" between the atmosphere and the 600-mile-high Van Allen Belt. Washington's answer is its own Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a bus-sized vehicle scheduled to be launched in 1969 in which crews would live and work for a month at a time. In case Russia presses the challenge, the U.S. is experimenting with a laser weapon that...
...harriers take on Columbia and Penn at Van Cortlandt Park. And although host Columbia should cop first and second places, the Crimson's main competition will come from Thompson, Schippelbaine, Kelso & Co. -- members of Penn's strong and solid squad...
...common threads run through the mix: most of the candidates favor a strong executive rather than government by parliament; they want a constitution that guarantees freedom from arbitrary arrest and freedom of speech; all members are vehemently nationalist and antiCommunist. Some of the more prominent facces: >Dr. Dang Van Sung, 51, a physician turned editor of Saigon's influential daily Chinh Luan ("The Right Opinion"), who is popular among intellectuals and the Hoa Hao, and could probably be elected assembly chairman if he chose. "He may turn out to be the strong minority opposition leader," says one observer...
...Tran Van Van, 58, a gaunt intriguer who is one of Viet Nam's wealthiest businessmen (Saigon real estate, Delta rice lands), is also an ally of Phan Khac Suu and was imprisoned by the Diem and Khanh regimes. Van is the potential leader of a 44-seat southern bloc in the new assembly...
...finding space for Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...