Word: beane
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...luncheon with Professor Seymour Martin Lipset in the sanctuary of the Lehman Hall small dining room. (The crowded, noisy Lehman Hall cafeteria outside is an SDS hangout for people so alienated from their fellow students that they refuse to sat in the house dining halls...) ... With his string-bean thin tie and crumpled suit, Lipset seemed the very human, modest, and even shy genius...
...there will be some changes in the routine. To prevent the kind of blackout caused when Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean inadvertently pointed his TV camera at the sun, the astronauts have been instructed to keep their color camera aimed at least 45° away from the solar disk. The Apollo 13 camera also is equipped with a lens cap and has a backup: a spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead...
Only two weeks ago, the confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to fill the ninth seat on the U.S. Supreme Court looked to be as sure a thing as bean soup on the Senate dining room's daily menu. Between Southern conservatives backing a sympathetic Floridian and Republican liberals hesitant to buck President Nixon a second time after defeat of the Haynsworth nomination in November, the White House forces counted 55 pro-Carswell votes. Last week, however, three factors coalesced to place the Carswell nomination in sudden and serious jeopardy...
...mile-high Nepalese capital of Katmandu has ever forgotten the lavish coronation of bean-shaped King Mahendra in 1956, when the tiny Himalayan country imported 40 taxicabs, 130 Indian waiters, and everything from pastel bathtubs to Coca-Cola. Now the Nepalese are at it again, this time with a well-publicized royal wedding, billed as one of the most lavish Hindu nuptial ceremonies in history...
...letter just acquired by Columbia University, Masefield appended a cartoon sketch of himself lying in open-mouthed nausea on his bunk, with the caption: "O captain, stop this misery!" ··· He flew the 230,000 miles to the moon, and back. Now Lunar Explorer Alan Bean is as earthbound as a turtle. For a minor infraction of flight regulations while taking off in his T-38 from Ellington AFB, near Houston, the Apollo 12 astronaut has been grounded for 30 days. ··· Wildlife conservationists have declared open season on Gina Lollobrigida. They protest that...