Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. In the context of the most recent space achievements, Stanley Kubrick's epic film deserves another look. Combining machinery and metaphysics in his tale of a voyage to Jupiter, Kubrick creates a stunning cosmic morality play to which the flight of Apollo 11 adds a tantalizing immediacy...
...current narcissistic delight with its space program. Dealing as it does with a research satellite that returns to earth lethally contaminated, there has rarely been such a right book at such a right time. Only two months ago, I remember hearing someone's garbled version of the proposed Apollo recovery that had our trio of astronauts stepping onto the Hornet and then shaking hands with President Nixon before being packed off into a world of saran-wrapped sterility--all in all, a delightful thought, in which the nation and the moon germs could only stand to gain. Unfortunately, it didn...
...astronauts, who will remain in quarantine until next week, took no part in the scientific examination of the rocks. But they were kept busy in their sealed-off quarters in the LRL with daily debriefings with NASA officials and fellow astronauts, including the crewmen of the scheduled Apollo 12 flight in November. Many of the discussions centered on such technical problems as the lunar module's limited fuel reserves. Because Neil Armstrong was forced at the last minute to take over the controls to avoid setting down in a boulder-strewn crater, NASA has scheduled landings on only...
...telephoned a Russian-speaking journalist, David Floyd, the Daily Telegraph's Soviet expert. Floyd instructed the defector to take a cab to his home. Since the evening was warm, Kuznetsov had left his coat in the hotel. He insisted that they return to his single room in the Apollo Hotel to get his film-laden coat and documents. Kuznetsov also retrieved his typewriter ("my old favorite") and some Cuban cigars ("They are so cheap in Moscow"). Then the two men rushed to a waiting car, narrowly missing Andjapazidze, who was already becoming concerned about his charge's disappearance...
...week-long superseminar on environment problems aboard a chartered Aegean cruise ship. Most expenses are paid by Doxiadis-who may or may not be a millionaire-and assorted wealthy friends. The trip always ends at the island of Delos, sacred to the ancient Greeks as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, where a formal summation of the results is read in the ancient theater. The event suggests that growing numbers of what might be called glamour intellectuals are drawn to the idea of city planning-although they are finding its problems difficult to articulate. A few days ago, TIME Correspondent...