Word: astronaut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidio. Along the way, the wagons will stop for Bicentennial celebrations in several Southwestern cities. San Jose is recreating a 19th century ambience in six square blocks and twelve buildings, including a firehouse, hardware store and bank. Los Angeles has lined up Comedians Dick and Tom Smothers, former Astronaut Scott Carpenter, former Professional Football Star Roosevelt Grier and a dozen others to design and sew a Bicentennial Celebrity Quilt...
Total Woman courses, which Morgan started four years ago, last only four weeks (one two-hour class a week) and cost $15. Her students, who have included Singer Anita Bryant, the wife of Astronaut Frank Borman and those of a dozen Miami Dolphin football players, have been taught to find happiness by living entirely for their husbands. Like Fascinating Women, Total Women celebrate male dominance and depend on guile and sauciness to get their way, but they use sex more overtly than their Fascinating sisters...
...stepped a bizarre figure who looked a bit like an Arab astronaut. He wore a white outfit and Arab-style head gear. Strapped to his body were devices that appeared to be explosives. He deposited satchels on the ground and then stood holding wires connected to the lethal-looking paraphernalia...
...farthest-out tournament of all may some day take place in space. Parker has already built two astronaut sets with aluminum houses and hotels and noncombustible paper supplied by NASA. The sets could accompany the closely confined and womanless crew the U.S. may send on a two-year mission to Mars before the end of the century. That would enable the Mars astronauts to engage in the longest-established, permanent floating space game in history. Says Bluffton College Psychology Professor (and Monopoly Fan) William J. Beausay: "All men have to have a strong motivator to compensate for loss...
...biggest trivia contest. Manchester (as he showed in The Death of a President, 1967) is one of those writers who find their supreme joy only in the presence of a fact, and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter what sort of a fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics...