Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half the Pacific on a balsawood raft 22 years ago, he recalls, "We on Kon Tiki were thrilled by the beauty and purity of the ocean." During his recent attempt to sail from Africa to Central America in a boat made of papyrus reeds, which he was forced to abandon last month 600 miles from his goal, Heyerdahl's old thrill was replaced by shock. In Manhattan last week, he reported to the Norwegian Mission at the United Nations: "Large surface areas in mid-ocean as well as nearer the continental shores on both sides were visibly polluted...
...marks from Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for his candor in explaining that the U.S. would maintain a presence in Southeast Asia while pressing Asians to take up the burden of their own defense. "Before you came," Marcos told Nixon, "we dreaded the possibility that the U.S. was going to abandon Asia completely, or on the other extreme that there might again be the policy of colonial dominance over the Asian countries." Philippine leaders have managed to contain the dissident Huks with government troops, and the country is geographically safe from anything but a massive foreign invasion...
...Even in the face of America's many social, political and economic ills, I can feel nothing but pride and gratitude toward a nation that will enable my children's children to abandon earthly strife in search of better worlds. I am only sorry that the generation of men and women who are making interplanetary travel a reality will themselves be confined to the boundaries of Mother Earth, thanks to Father Time...
There could be no doubt that the appeal was effective with many listeners and that Massachusetts, at any rate, would not abandon him. The speech, said Harvard Government Professor Samuel Beer, was a "great tribute to his humanity and strength." Many other Bay Staters obviously agreed. Tens of thousands of telegrams and phone calls offering support came into newspapers and TV and radio stations. Elsewhere, of course, reaction was more mixed. The usual surge of Kennedy hate mail came to Arena and, cruelly enough, to the dead woman's parents. In Massachusetts, where the Kennedys are almost sacrosanct, Republicans will...
...Committee held hearings on Stauder and a teaching fellow. A third teaching fellow who earlier wanted to renew his appointment has now decided to abandon this attempt. This case was dismissed...