Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home again, for a night at least. Or so they seemed to be singing, brothers and sisters. A Who's Who of pop music was onstage at the Apollo Theater, the Harlem home of funk and soul and rock 'n' roll, where many of the glittering lineup got their start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart...
...remember those exciting early days of the U.S. space program? Dieter Kolff and his fellow scientists leading America's effort to catch up with the Soviets and put a man into orbit. Astronaut John Pope making his spectacular walk in space. And, of course, that historic Apollo landing on the dark side of the moon and its terrifying brush with disaster...
...last Harvard degree holder in space was Harrison J. Schmidt, who earned a Harvard Ph.D in geology in 1961 and walked on the moon in December 1972 as a member of the Apollo 17 crew. After leaving NASA, Schmidt served one term as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico...
...Muzak is, of course, almost everywhere, and metastasizing: in the bank and the supermarket and the of fice elevator, on the telephone line when the victim has been put on hold. It plays in the White House and the Pentagon; it played during the Olympics; it played in the Apollo XI spaceship that carried Neil Armstrong to the moon...
...explosion came in the second period. Ferry added three more tallies in the stanza, and Apollo, Beth Barnhill, and Katie Stone contributed single goals to blast the lead...