Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university had made its point.Or had it? Said Sim Van Der Ryn, chairman of the chancellor's advisory committee on housing and environment: "The People's Park was a great idea. The university just seems to be mad that they didn't think of it first." Asserting the need for the fence, Heyns admitted: "That's a hard way to make the point, but that's the way it has to be." At week's end, 1,200 National Guardsmen patrolled the streets and the park was closed off and empty. Continued agitation...
...easy entry on the boy-meets-girl plot level, Nabokov indulges in a tale about Van Veen and his half sister Ada Veen. They fall in love at the respective ages of 14 and twelve and begin an energetic sex life in the nooks and dells of the family's rural estate. Over the years, their floating orgy suffers prolonged periods of inactivity. In their old age, however, Van and Ada reunite and mate?now in a highly figurative way?melding into an unbeing that Nabokov calls Vaniada. Licensed allusion hunters will find that Vanadis is an epithet for Freya...
...original plans called for Apollo 11 astronauts to remain sealed inside their spacecraft until it was lifted to the deck of the recovery carrier. There, they would walk through a plastic tunnel running from the hatch of the spacecraft into a hermetically sealed van on the carrier deck. Following a similar transfer from the van to Houston's sealed Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), the astronauts were to continue under strict quarantine for a total of 21 days. Recently, however, NASA officials began to have second thoughts about the discomforts the astronauts would endure if they were...
...attached raft, each will slip into a "biological isolation garment" brought along by a frogman who will be similarly outfitted. The suit is equipped with a filter that should block any organisms that the astronauts exhale. After a helicopter ride to the carrier deck, they will enter the van and follow the original quarantine plans...
...artists from different areas. Rockefeller is proudest of the part played by the Museum of Modern Art, for which he has twice served terms as president. The Modern's great achievement, he feels, has been "to cut down the time between creation and appreciation, so that a Van Gogh didn't have to die in poverty before his work was appreciated...