Word: astronautics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ageless Wisdom. In the film 2001, Clarke's contribution as co-author and technical adviser to Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick is evident in such items as a weird but technologically probable talking computer that is more human than the astronauts. The film's ending, however, is almost pure Kubrick. A surviving spaceman is plunked into a Louis XVI bedroom after a psychedelic zoom through time and space that is mystifying to most moviegoers. But Clarke's novel version of 2001 explains all. As the survivor approached a huge monolith on lapetus, one of Saturn...
After speaking for tighter gun-control laws during an evening talk show on Manhattan's educational TV station WNDT, former Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 46, was strolling out of the studio when an unscheduled interruption blared from the monitor. A flock of 20-odd not-so-gentle love children suddenly burst into the studio, pummeled the guards, twisted the director's arm, and took over the program, shouting slogans and obscenities while the cameras still looked on. The mayhem did not end until Manhattan's police, doing their own thing, arrived and collared the unruly invaders...
...Kennedy touch" (forward passing legal anywhere on the field) continued on the broad, sloping lawn, with Astronaut John Glenn and then Campaign Bodyguard William Barry taking Bobby's place as quarterback. The children swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...
...description delights the man who directed the display. Robert J. Braidwood, 60, is an old hand at upsetting his fellow archaeologists. By using modern aerial photographs to give an astronaut's eye view of the ancient world, and placing ancient artifacts in a contemporary setting, the field director of the University of Chicago's "Prehistoric Project" contrives to add unexpected drama to the simple relics he has found in two decades of digging in the hills of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Scorning what he calls the gravedigger school of archaeology, Braidwood says: "I've never had much...