Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apollo astronauts are permitted to carry "Personal preference kits," in which they put small souvenir items for themselves, families and friends...
Last week, after an elaborate investigation, NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts, David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden, had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back. Through an intermediary, 100 copies of the moon mail were eventually purchased by a German philatelist named Hermann Sieger, who in turn sold 99 of them for a reported $1,500 apiece...
Myth tells us that the god Apollo, whose instrument was the lyre, was challenged to a musical contest by a coarse satyr named Marsyas, who had learned to play the flute. Marsyas lost, and Apollo skinned him alive. In our day, this draconian triumph of reason over instinct has been reversed: Marsyas, the unrepressed goat-man, has won; the Rolling Stones are one of his incarnations. Unlike the Beatles-the very prototype of nice English working-class lads accepted everywhere, winning M.B.E.s from the Queen-the Stones from the start based their appeal partly on their reputation as delinquents. They...
...London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, and Khrushchev Remembers. He also expanded LIFE'S account of the Apollo 11 mission into a book, First on the Moon...
...almost every major city there is now a travel agency specializing in black tour packages. Most of them are run by experienced black travelers, such as Earl Jackson, a former New York City policeman who heads I.G.T. Travel in Queens; Louis Larkins of the Apollo Travel Agency in Chicago; Charles North of North Travel in Miami; and Alberto De Voe of De Voe Travel Service in Los Angeles. The agents not only know where blacks like to visit, but, says Hillarie Jones of Charm Travel, which has offices in Oakland and San Francisco, "we wouldn't recommend a small...