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When man first walked on the moon, Long Island was there
jennifer.smith@newsday.comThomas J. Kelly, the propulsion expert known as the father of the moon lander, heaved a sigh of relief as a cargo plane carrying the LM-1 left the Grumman airfield in Bethpage for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was June 1967, just months after...Tags: United States, Metal and Mineral, Engineering, Aerospace Manufacturing, National Government
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Lunar landing: Don Shields
Don Shields, 53, of Huntington Station, is an attorney. In 1969 he was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at St. Brigid's School in Westbury. His father, Gerry Shields, now deceased, was a methods engineer at Grumman. I followed the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., United States, Huntington Station, Space Programs
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Sputnik and the dawn of the Space Race
bart.jones@newsday.comIt was the evening of Oct. 4, 1957, and millions of Americans were tuning in their television sets to watch the premiere of "Leave It to Beaver." Unknown to them, the country's archenemy in the Cold War, the Soviet Union, was carrying out a project...Tags: United States, Government, International Military Interventions, Democratic Party, Satellite Technology
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Memories channeled
Buildings are always falling down or going up, the city's face in a constant state of rearrangement. And so, another nip and tuck, and down came the large building that had the formal address of 630 N. McClurg Ct. and a vast number of memories. Few go...Tags: CBS Corp., Government, Clubs and Associations, NBC, Richard Nixon
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Brilliant? Try A Liar And A Fool
The cosmopolitan denizens of Washington, D.C. reminded the rest of us last week that they are prisoners of their own mythology. Obituaries and commentary on death of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 93, persisted in describing him as...Tags: Defense, Coup d'Etat, United States, Government, Ronald Reagan
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Justices who rule America examined in Packing the Court
The New York TimesIn the wake of the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott ruling, which effectively made slavery legal in the territories, Lincoln declared in his first inaugural address that "if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole...Tags: Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Felix Frankfurter, Constitutional Issues, United States
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More to Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, than 'A Moveable Feast'
Special to the TribuneThe wrenching love story between Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway is one of the most poignant in American literary history. Aspects of Hemingway's perspective on it are told in his beautiful memoir, "A Moveable Feast," published in 1964. This month,...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Fishing, Henry James, Family
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'For All Mankind'
Since the birth of movies, the moon has exerted a fascination as a mythic location. In 1902, the cinema's original magician, Georges Méliès, used a projectile cannon, cardboard sets and a host of camera tricks to imagine "A Trip to the Moon." Fritz Lang's...Tags: Fritz Lang, Government, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Movies, Texas
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Breves
Un pequeño estudio revela que una terapia de nueve semanas a través de Internet y sin intervención humana, puede combatir el insomnio. Un programa de software da consejos con los que el usuario aprende a modificar sus hábitos, por medio de historias y...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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Milestones in the Space Race
1957 Oct. 4. USSR launches Sputnik 1. Nov. 3. USSR launches Sputnik 2, with small dog named Laika aboard. Dec. 6. First U.S. attempt to launch satellite ends in disaster. 1958 Jan. 31. U.S. successfully launches its first satellite, Explorer I....Tags: NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Space Programs, Russia, Satellite Technology
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Robert Strange McNamara, a Man for the Soulless Age
Somewhere along the way, in keeping with the bureaucratic times, Hannah Arendt's banality of evil developed into a vast, modern technocracy of evil. Progress marches on, or at least calculates on. When the German sociologist Max Weber defined modernity...Tags: David Petraeus, International Military Interventions, Government, Arkansas, Max Weber
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Robert S. McNamara dies at 93; architect of the Vietnam War
Driven, cerebral and pugnacious, Robert S. McNamara was the preeminent policymaker behind the massive buildup of American forces in Vietnam between 1964 and 1968. As Defense secretary for two administrations, he wielded blizzards of facts and figures to...Tags: U.S. Military, United States, Disasters, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Veterans Affairs
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