Word: armstrong
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Enter romantic possibility--or, in a coming-of-middle-age tale like this, inevitability--in the lank person of Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), a peddler they call "the blouse man." While the others watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, Pearl is in the back of the blouse man's truck becoming a giddy, blossoming girl again. A few weeks later, she goes with him to Woodstock, gets baptized in Day-Glo body paint and is spotted by a horrified Alison. My mother--the hippie whore...
...Edwin Armstrong develops superheterodyne circuit, the receiver-amplifier at the heart of radios and televisions today...
...Verne's novel asks of Fogg: "What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you?" The names Piccard and Jones may not strike the same chords as Columbus or Magellan or Lindbergh or Armstrong. Indeed, last weekend's achievement is literally lighter than air. But Piccard and Jones have won the last world-spanning contest of our era. And now they are history...
...Armstrong develops FM (frequency modulation) radio broadcasting...
...Armstrong's basket with 4:29 left gave Orlando an 85-73 lead, but Danny Ferry scored seven of Cleveland's next nine points to help the Cavs pull within 88-82 with 1:52 remaining. The Magic then closed the game with...