Word: apollos
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...holding a huge picture of Mao across the driveway. Other Guards rampaged through a large apartment building housing families of some 100 foreign diplomats and pasted a portrait of Mao on each apartment door. Red Guards tossed confiscated art objects, including replicas of the Venus de Milo and Apollo, onto bonfires...
...space age. They are vital to the electronic systems of the Minuteman II and Polaris missiles, the Navy A-7A attack bomber and the supersonic, swing-wing F-111A. They are at work in the radiation measurement system aboard Lunar Orbiter I and will be used in the Apollo Project's lunar excursion module. ICs are used in the new ground-surveillance radar system at the Atlanta airport and are being designed into most new military and commercial computers. Within the last year, the tiny chips have also begun to find their way into consumer products. Some Zenith hearing...
...Force were recruited to judge such sophisticated craft as a model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours of labor. A few pioneers are even sending aloft mice and grasshoppers, which successfully parachute back to earth at the end of the ride...
...perhaps merely confident, about security and also about such matters as psychoanalysis, theology, homosexuality and alcoholism. The story begins in a private mental hospital, where mixed-up army officers are vetted, but the focus shifts to a nearby military installation engaged on a sinister project known as Operation Apollo. Kingsley Amis, whose The James Bond Dossier shows a theoretical as well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader. Atomic rifle ammunition for issue rifles seems to be the secret of Apollo; the suspected leaks include a friendly neighborhood nymphomaniac, a particularly nasty psychiatrist, an alcoholic...
...sought to enshrine her, none had such means to match her genius as Rodin. Even their first meeting was Olympian. "My pilgrimage to Rodin," she recalled, "resembled that of Psyche seeking the God Pan in his grotto, only I was not asking the way to Eros, but to Apollo. He showed his works with the simplicity of the very great." The aging sculptor returned her admiration with a passion, sketched Isadora and her pupils countless times, once sighed: "If only I could have had models like this when I was younger." Isadora responded in kind: "What a pity! Surely...