Word: vanguard
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...bravery that sustained the nation through the rigors of the space race? Before historical revisionists set in, the fifties were known as a time of postwar boom. (and Nixon was only Vice-President.) Then America's hopes, indeed, the free world's, depended on a frail rocket named Vanguard. But the shiny object could fly only a yard before collapsing inward. The army developed the Jupiter rocket with the spinning Explorer satellite as its payload. The booster was as American as Werner von Braun, but it did not explode and the race to the moon was on. The Russians became...
...students from a Negro college in North Carolina sat-in at a local restaurant to protest its policy of racial discrimination. Their act of protest spread first to other Negro colleges, and then grew rapidly into a movement as black college students became during the next four years the vanguard of an intensive struggle for civil right in the South...
...Success does not necessarily depend on a better mousetrap - since one British researcher has jumped right into the vanguard of modern technology by deliberately building a worse machine. See SCIENCE, "The Unridable Bicycle...
...shot to death six policemen and wounded 47 others (the police also report they have slain ten Panthers). The Panthers insist that their massive private arsenals are for self-defense, but they preach organized violence and the overthrow of the "fascist imperialist U.S. Government," and consider themselves the violent vanguard of a new American revolution. No Panthers have been convicted as yet of any bombings; several await trial on bombing charges...
...color who are poor and oppressed or subjected to poverty and wretched oppression. Our direction as a black people will be that of a massive, 30 million or more-which is what I believe the real population of black America is-thirty million or more black people being a vanguard type people of a revolutionary struggle...