Word: astronaut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the stain grew larger. NASA reported that 15 astronauts, all unnamed, were "admonished" for their parts in another commercial scheme. According to NASA, the 15 had been paid $37,500 for signing more than 30,000 stamps and postcards. If these were added to such other astronaut souvenirs as watches, medals and figurines that reached the market, the total price would be just over...
...gymnastics-of which the play itself is perhaps too full. The time is the near future. A rationalist-oriented "Radical Liberal Party" has taken over England and elevated the ex-Minister of Agriculture to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury. In full sight of millions of televiewers, one British astronaut has clobbered another into the moon dust (there is too little fuel for both of them to return to earth...
...receiving questionable mental therapy (and even more questionable physical therapy) from the vice chancellor of George's university. It is to Dottie that Stoppard entrusts what may be his fundamental conviction: that a world without absolutes will shortly breed moral anarchy; witness the behavior of the astronaut. It is the Dostoevskian proposition that in a world that has no God, anything is permissible...
...they had given up guessing about Cronkite. It was not impossible for any of the correspondents to imagine the conventions in 2000 that nominate Governor Joseph Kennedy and Senator David Eisenhower to compete for the presidency. "Over to you, Walter," says the astronaut in the satellite. And Walter goes on, with his stately pauses, his patented regionalism ("The p'leece are speakeen"). "End the war, end the war!" the protesters are shouting, but no one pays attention. For this war-the one over ratings-is the never-ending one. And after the balloons are popped, the papers swept...
Apollo 15 Astronaut Colonel James B. Irwin announced, somewhat mysteriously, that he had had "a spiritual encounter with God on the moon." That, said Irwin, was the reason he changed his mind about profiting from the sale of stamped envelopes he and fellow astronauts Colonel David R. Scott and Lieut. Colonel Alfred M. Worden had smuggled into lunar orbit. (All three were reprimanded, and Worden and Scott are being reassigned from astronautical duty.) Irwin retires from the service this month to concentrate on High Flight, Inc., a nonprofit religious organization. "I don't think my mistake will damage...