Word: groundedness
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JUDGING BY THE PANIC surfacing in newspapers and magazines across the country, the press and the public face the gravest threat ever to the right to print and the right to know. Part of this panic is based on illusion: part is grounded on dangerous truth.
It was a day that Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton would never forget. On March 15, 1962, only two months before the taciturn astronaut was scheduled to become the second American to orbit the earth, NASA doctors abruptly grounded him. Reason: they had discovered an occasional irregularity in the rhythm of...
A quarter of a century ago, the Crimson watched a nation take up arms to "Make the World Safe For Democracy." Today the Crimson believes we are at war for the Four Freedoms, only one of which is safety, and realizes that security is not the privilege of one form...
The closely guarded hopefulness was also grounded in a belief that North Viet Nam still stands by its agreement of last October to separate the cease-fire-the military aspects of the conflict-from the eventual political settlement. "We are not back to square one," insists a ranking U.S. diplomat...
Died. Andrei N. Tupolev, 84, grand old man of Soviet aviation and developer of the TU-144, SST rival to the British-French Concorde; of heart disease; in Moscow. A quiet, portly intellectual, Tupolev predicted in 1922 that aviation's future lay in all-metal planes, then began designing...