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...Western scientists immediately noted that it was traveling in an orbit remarkably similar to that of Soyuz 1, which crashed on landing last April, killing Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov. Three days later, a cylindrical object called Cosmos 188 was rocketed aloft into the same orbital track, a scant 14.9 miles from Cosmos 186. The accuracy was remarkable, but it had to be. Western space experts have learned that Russian spacecraft radar lacks power for long-range precision, and what was to come depended largely on the radar equipment aboard...
Stennis said: "We want to return to our primary assignment of recommending a standard of conduct." In fact, there is scant likelihood that either house will pass anything resembling a workable code of ethics this session. Despite all the demands for a tough code, Congress has dawdled too long to agree on anything so sensitive. Thus, for yet another year, it perpetuates a moral vacuum in which standards of conduct are a matter for the independent judgment of the legislator...
Both Harvard and Yale have run at Dartmouth and, naturally, the race prognosticators have compared times. Running without four of the top seven, Harvard's team compiled times which would have lost to the full-strength Yale varsity by a scant point. But, as noted, everyone is running for the Crimson today...
There was scant hope of dialectical deescalation. The New York Times's James Reston and other columnists helped keep the temperatures high. They accused Secretary of State Dean Rusk of having revived the dreaded specter of the "yellow peril" when he told a news conference two weeks ago that the U.S. was in Viet Nam because "within the next decade or two there will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college...
...wars and riots, all the cameras point in the same direction-toward where the action is. What could give the coverage distinction is an analysis of the action, but as servants of the tyranny of time, newscasters are compelled to explain only what can be crammed into a few scant minutes...