Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RALPH ABERNATHY, who was vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is now senior pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. -- WILLIAM ANDERS, Apollo 8 astronaut, is now senior executive vice president of Textron Inc. in Providence. -- FRANK BORMAN, Apollo 8 astronaut, heads Patlex Corp., a small California laser company, after serving ten years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post...
...with Ron ("I immediately decided I wanted to become a Democrat," he jokes). Joe Louis, a frequent guest, gave him a pair of his boxing gloves. From the roof of the Theresa, 13 floors high, Ron and his friends would gaze out on the excitement of 125th Street -- the Apollo Theater, the street-corner orators, the hustlers -- and the poverty beyond...
...Bobby Kennedy dead, Martin Luther King Jr. dead. Apollo 8, the Tet offensive, flower power. Drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. Gone, perhaps, but never forgotten, that turbulent, mind-blowing time continues to reverberate in the national consciousness. TIME profiles a pivotal moment in history with the publication of 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation. Full of the pictures that indelibly marked a nation, this special collector's book recaptures a year when innocence died and the world turned upside down...
...this century voiced the same tender feelings on seeing the first images of the earth as viewed from the moon. The sight of that shimmering, luminescent ball set against the black void inspired even normally prosaic astronauts to flights of eloquence. Edgar Mitchell, who flew to the moon aboard Apollo 14 in 1971, described the planet as "a sparkling blue-and-white jewel . . . laced with slowly swirling veils of white . . . like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery." Photos of the earth from space prompted geologist Preston Cloud to write, "Mother Earth will never seem the same...
...Beauvert, succinctly recounts the history of the fabled hall, but the real tour d'horizon is provided by Jacques Moatti's photographs, which take the reader from the subterranean lake beneath the mammoth building, where the Phantom of the Opera was said to roam, to the gilded statue of Apollo and his lyre, which soars some 230 ft. above the streets of Paris...