Word: astronautics
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...industry has worked harder at wooing golfers than the hotel and resort business. As astronaut Alan Shepard showed in 1971 with his six-iron shot on the moon, golfers will go to practically any extreme to try out a new course. According to the National Golf Foundation, players spent nearly $8 billion of their golf outlays last year on travel. Marriott Hotels and Resorts, based in Bethesda, Md., currently operates 18 golf getaways in the U.S., plans to open another in Hauppauge, N.Y., this fall and has three more on the drawing board. "If we don't have golf...
RALPH ABERNATHY, who was vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is now senior pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. -- WILLIAM ANDERS, Apollo 8 astronaut, is now senior executive vice president of Textron Inc. in Providence. -- FRANK BORMAN, Apollo 8 astronaut, heads Patlex Corp., a small California laser company, after serving ten years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post...
...grey, no color. Looks like plaster of paris, or sort of a greyish deep sand . . . The Sea of Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does on earth. There's not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off." Astronaut James Lovell skimmed less than 70 miles above the lunar surface as he gave that matter-of- fact first impression of the earth's great, ghostly satellite. Lovell waxed more metaphoric as he described the great blue ball, 233,000 miles away, that he, Frank Borman and William Anders...
...United Nations, to coordinate multinational research projects and centralize essential data on the state of the world. Such an umbrella program could pool the results of hundreds of existing research efforts. A prime candidate for this program would be the Mission to Planet Earth, recommended by former astronaut Sally Ride, which would use NASA facilities to study the earth from space. In addition to improving knowledge of the earth's ills, an International Earthwatch Program could provide the basis for a widespread awareness-building campaign aimed at preparing public opinion for the sacrifices and life-style changes that will...
...changes. She has survived a sexual revolution, an army of imitators and a string of risky career moves and hairstyle changes. There was Barbie the stewardess in 1961, then Barbie the nurse (no mean feat, since 1964 was the first year she could bend her knees) and Barbie the astronaut. She apparently was completing medical school at the time, since this year she emerged as Dr. Barbie. "The toys that become classics are those that help children define themselves as they grow," says Mattel USA president Robert Sansone. "Barbie is a vehicle for rehearsing what little girls will...