Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marchers, who did not quite attract all of the headlines they sought in the hope of galvanizing Congress into quick passage of President Johnson's new civil rights bill. They were succeeding in James Meredith's original task of showing Negroes that they could walk through Mississippi with dignity. More important yet, their registration forays added 2,250 Negroes to Mississippi's voting lists...
...greatest of all American heroes, a machine-borne Icarus who did not fall. The astronauts are his heirs and yet they are already submerged in team heroism. First there was Alan Shepard, who was succeeded by the engaging John Glenn, and then Edward White was the first American to walk in space, and then ... By now few people can remember all the names. But the astronaut remains truly heroic as a composite figure...
...shaken loose, the two astronauts were exhausted by three difficult but largely successful rendezvous attempts (TIME, June 10). Even so, the Gemini 9 crew hoped to salvage most of the mission by successfully completing their last and most dramatic assignment: Astronaut Cernan's scheduled 21-hour walk in space. "Hallelujah!" shouted Cernan as he opened his hatch and emerged into space on schedule...
Incandescent Re-Entry. Like almost everything else on Gemini 9's glitch-filled flight, space photography fell short of expectations. Just as he was about to close the hatch, Astronaut Cernan lost the film magazine and a lens from the movie camera that had recorded his space walk. As lens and film floated out of the spacecraft and into orbits of their own, he grabbed for them but missed. Understandably, Cernan did not follow. "I didn't feel like any more extravehicular activity," he explained. In addition, many of the 17 magazines of color film shot from inside...
...before the commencement ceremonies, quipping, "I am told that this question session is a requirement to get an honorary degree at Amherst." He coolly answered sharp but politely put questions for more than an hour. When a student told him that some seniors would wear white arm bands and walk out to protest his honorary degree, McNamara said he respected their position because "I don't think we want to deny the freedom here that we are fighting for the Vietnamese to have...