Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the kind of split-second decisions the astronauts had to make in their landing on the moon? If this becomes a problem for him, some of the stuff he admitted about his behavior could be brought back and used against him." One sick joke already visualizes a Democrat asking about Nixon during the 1972 presidential campaign: "Would you let this man sell you a used car?" Answer: "Yes, but I sure wouldn't let that Teddy drive...
...early estimates of the cost of putting man on the moon. NASA officials, who have always worried about being accused of underestimating costs, used to quote figures as high as $40 billion, but the actual cost of Apollo to date has been $24 billion. As for Mars, New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson, head of the Senate Space Committee, guesses that the bill for a manned mission would run from $25 billion to $40 billion...
...Kosygin last week received the West German ambassador in Moscow for the first time in more than a year. Kosygin also had a long and friendly talk in the Kremlin with an important political visitor from West Germany. He was Walter Scheel, the leader of the third-place Free Democratic Party. As West Germany's new President, Gustav Heinemann, a Social Democrat, celebrated his 70th birthday, there were among the presents he received 50 red roses. The sender: the Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Semyon Tsarapkin...
Last week the Senate subcommittee on air and water pollution approved a bill sponsored by Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie that would set up an in dependent "Office of Environmental Quality." The Senate has also just unanimously passed a remarkable bill in troduced by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, chairman of the Interior Committee. A shrewd politician, Jackson finessed his bill through on the consent calendar, which bypasses floor debate. His "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969" would do no less than...
...scene of an accident. Under Massachusetts law, a manslaughter charge is mandatory when someone leaves the scene of an accident in which there has been a fatality and negligence is proved. This means that the case will be turned over to District Attorney Edmund Dinis, an ambitious and independent Democrat. Both the charge and Kennedy's own statement raised more questions than they answered...