Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absolute Monarch. It was 2 a.m. before the President returned to Washington, but he was up early the following morning to fly 70 miles via Marine helicopter to Winchester, Va., for the funeral of Senator Harry Byrd's wife "Sittie." After the services, Lyndon reached into the Senator's car, grasped his hand and kissed it in a genuine gesture of condolence. He whispered a few words to Byrd, and old Harry, who has crossed many a political sword with Johnson, brushed tears from his eyes...
Then followed some imaginative stunts, such as broadcasting America the Beautiful from California to New Jersey via the moon. But the early 1960s were also marked by many disappointing setbacks for what a 1962 cover story called the "anxious assault on space." And in a 1963 cover on William Pickering, the head of California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and undisputed hero of last week's Ranger triumph, TIME said: "Those were dark days. But each failure became a lecture from space on what to do or not to do the next time...
...performed with Pianist Van Cliburn, 30, who conducted the camp's 150-member student orchestra. Whatever criticism Luci Baines is going to get (and under the circumstances, it will scarcely be fanged), will come when her version of the Russian fairy tale is beamed back whence it came, via the Voice of America...
...show was lost. Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis announced that he was canceling a movie in which he had planned to star Princess Soraya, 32, because he was unable to "modernize" a Henry James novel, The American, sufficiently to suit her talents. But the whisper along Rome's Via Veneto had it that Soraya was the one who had refused to modernize: as Iran's ex-Queen, she had imperiously insisted on top billing, and no star De Laurentlis approached would play second fiddle to an amateur. In private, Soraya's escort crisis was not so acute...
...people how to think and act like lawyers, not how to memorize cases." Many bar examiners are now steering toward that standard. But most law schools and bar examiners are still so far apart that the only way for law students to travel from one to the other is via the "necessary evil" of cram schools...