Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year's Day. Ever since, the holidays have been a lively season at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Few presidential couples, however, have gone at the Christmastime merrymaking with quite the gusto of Richard and Pat Nixon. For the holidays they have peopled the place with choirs, Bob Hope, the Apollo 12 astronauts and more than 6,000 other Americans, renowned and unknown. To fuel those guests, the kitchens turned out 25,000 cookies, 1,130 gallons of fruit punch and an identical quantity of eggnog. Nobody in Washington can remember a more festive White House Christmas...
Some Italians dubbed the new bug "the moon flu," because it began to spread about the time the Apollo 12 astronauts returned to earth. Others called it "space flu," because it moved south at 20 miles per hour. Italy's Ministry of Health labeled it "a variation of A2 Hong Kong flu, a nephew of the Asiatic type," which reached epidemic proportions in Europe and the U.S. in 1967-68. By whatever name, as of last week the flu had struck 15 million Italians (out of 54 million). Said one U.S. diplomat: "I haven't seen anything like...
...there is the Pegasus, a double bed that climbs three feet up and down; the Seesaw, which makes the bedroom a playground; and the Seesaw Pony, which not only teeters but simultaneously flips a center section up and down. There is an Apollo series, double beds with built-in hi-fi and lighting system designed to create a "mesmerizing bedroom mood," and the Fantasia series, which throws in a movie projector and screen as well...
Blinking at the unaccustomed sunlight, the Apollo 12 astronauts were released yesterday from their quarantine in Houston's Lunar Receiving Laboratory...
...Affairs is one of Washington's trickier jobs-explaining Foggy Bottom to the press and country at large. It is an office that has been vacant since the Johnson Administration left town. Now President Nixon has found a man with a delicate touch to take on the assignment: Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, who minded the command module while Comrades Armstrong and Aldrin descended for the moon landing. Though the post usually goes to a newsman, Collins believes he has some unique qualifications for the task. "We can talk very clearly from a quarter of a million miles...