Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Point. Despite his surprise at the report's severity, NASA Administrator James Webb did not dispute its findings. Instead, he accentuated the positive. "The board has found error, but it has also found the capability to overcome error," he said. Displaying a flash of the evangelical fervor that has characterized his six-year reign as NASA's boss-a job that the North Carolina born lawyer owed to his solid friendships with Lyndon Johnson and Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls...
...Webb, the drive to explore space is "a high point in all mankind's vision." In the wake of the Apollo tragedy, he conceded that the venture is a dangerous one, but added that "either the country is going to take the risk and get on as we did in Mercury and Gemini, or we will not have a manned-space-flight program." U.S. policymakers have already made their choice. Though the tragedy at Cape Kennedy has set back the first manned Apollo flight by a year, they are still committed to sending men to the moon...
...poverty war, where the fight must be won if the nation's effort to eliminate economic deprivation is to be considered effective. Of 115 federal programs designed to fight poverty, Ladero is eligible for 112. Several million federal dollars have been funnelled in the city and surrounding Webb County...
...local power structure may also have made itself felt through Philip Kazan, brother of the congressman and mentor of the Kazen faction in Webb County's political machine...
Disillusioned Fabian. Extremists like Muggeridge are usually in revolt against a conservative, straitlaced childhood. But Muggeridge rebelled against a conventional left-wing upbringing. His father was a Fabian Socialist; his mother was a proper working-class girl. He married Kitty Dobbs, niece of Fabian Founder Beatrice Webb. When he journeyed to India to teach English, he urged his students to rebel against British rule...