Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny Monday morning in Levittown, Long Island, teen-agers ran out of the small ranch houses and Cape Cods, darting through carports, and leaving back doors swinging and slamming. Some dashed through the streets, shouting, and others exuberantly made haste on their skateboards. One long-haired boy hustled along to the tune of a blaring radio. Their destination? MacArthur High School, a sprawling, two-story brick building with bright turquoise trim, an All-American high school right down to its official colors: red, white and blue. Bouncing" with excitement, the youngsters converged in the schoolyard and waited anxiously...
...where is there greater evil than in Metropolis, the image of Manhattan right down to the grit on the sidewalks? Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) lands a job on the Daily Planet, where he can keep a watch on crime and corruption, and then, with cape on and horn-rimmed glasses off, swoop down on crooks everywhere. The city is agog, and Planet Reporter Lois Lane is assigned to find out all about the flying miracle worker. As played by Margot Kidder, Lois is not the starchy spinster of the comics and the TV serial...
Giacconi, who viewed the launch from Cape Canaveral last week with about 20 other scientists from the Center for Astrophysics, said the mission, originally scheduled to last about a year, may run for more than three years depending on when the fuel needed to keep the telescope stable runs...
White South Africans are fond of drawing parallels between their country and the U.S. The Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock only a few years before the first Dutch settlers came to the Cape of Good Hope; the westward movement in the U.S. came at the same time as the Afrikaaners moved north in covered wagons on their Voortrek. Both countries had gold rushes in the nineteenth century; both countries had to fight the British for their independence. The only reason America doesn't have South Africa's problems today, they'll tell you, is that the early Americans were better...
...yesterday, an Atlas-Centaur rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral and sent HEAO-2 into an orbit that mission scientists called "perfect ... right on the money...