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...modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to flounder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it. We have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...
...working on a series of tapestries called Le Chant du Monde, mostly representing such contemporary horrors as La Grande Menace (fallout), Le Grand Charmer (worldwide charnel house) and La Fin de Tout (final destruction). Other sections of Lurgat's monumental looming have more pleasant themes: fishing, wine, the conquest of space, hunting and poetry...
...allowance bill. Moreover, there is a suspicion that the Administration tends to penalize bigness. Said Albert L. Nickerson, chairman of Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. "It seems to me illogical to 'think big' in terms of such activities as economic competition from Russia, space exploration and the conquest of poverty and disease, and then on the other hand to 'think small' in terms of the business organizations that are the keystone of our economy...
...varsity started well, scoring first on an extra-man play at 1:11 of the first period. The tally came on the now familiar Grady-Watts-to-Lou-Williams pattern and second to mark the beginning of another Crimson conquest. But Coach Bruce Munro's team hit on only one other extra man play all afternoon and reached the scoring column just one more time in the entire first half...
...rolled toward that inexorable collision between East and West that Karl Marx not only foresaw but tried to prevent. He died in London in 1883. And the revolution that he had hoped to ignite in Germany with his Manifesto flamed instead in the very country whose dreams of world conquest he feared the most...