Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRIDAY: After jettisoning of the service module, the Apollo command module was due to re-enter the earth's atmosphere about 10:40 a.m. and splash down in the Pacific recovery zone near Christmas Island about eleven minutes later...
...continent's citizens now live under military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
...army coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went out of his way to stress two points. One, hardly necessary for him to state to such a group, was that the officers were justified in their crackdown...
...himself finally intervenes, though he admits that "taking command is not my cup of Tetley," and Graham Brown plays him with elegance and panache in a sharp set of threads that is appropriately grey. But God and Author Mclver have a soporific tendency to repeat themselves until the play fights the players to a draw...
...Germany for half a century. The other was a Roman Catholic monk who worked hermitlike on his writings in the hills of central Kentucky. But while Karl Barth gave his life to scholarship and Thomas Merton to contemplation, both men were Christian activists who found in the Word a command to do. Barth stood courageously against Nazi totalitarianism. Merton drove himself endlessly in championing the cause of the poor and oppressed. On their journey toward their deaths last week, each brought to his age, and to his fellow man, a message of love that was ardently Christian...