Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most bravely outspoken among them is Terry Sanford, 54, ex-Governor of North Carolina who is now the president of Duke University. Last month he became a surprise entry in the May 6 North Carolina primary because, says one of his aides, "he couldn't stand the thought of a Wallace victory in his home state-and figured that nobody but Terry Sanford could beat...
...Charles Duke's jubilant Southern drawl crackled across 240,000 miles of space last week, all the world breathed a sigh of relief. After a nerve-racking delay of nearly six hours, during which NASA officials came close to calling off Apollo 16's lunar landing, Astronauts Duke and John Young had brought the landing craft Orion to a nearly perfect touchdown only 200 yards off target in the moon's mountain-ringed Descartes region. It was man's fifth successful landing on the lunar surface, and the first in the highlands, the moon...
While Astronaut Ken Mattingly orbited overhead in the command module Casper, Duke and Young stared out their cabin window onto the sundrenched Cayley Plains. Near their spacecraft, they excitedly reported to scientists back in Mission Control, was a large variety of rocks and boulders, some as big as 10 ft. across, glistening in shades of white and pink and gray. "All we have to do is jump out the hatch and we've got plenty of rocks," exclaimed Duke. The astronauts also reported brilliantly gleaming ray patterns -splashes of material gouged from the moon's interior by meteorite...
...moon. First, there were minor troubles -the mysterious flickering of a computer warning light, the mid-flight peeling of protective paint off the lunar module and the recalcitrant zipper on Young's space suit. Then, after the Apollo had gone into orbit around the moon and Orion, with Duke and Young aboard, had separated from Casper, came real cause for alarm...
...doubt on the theory that the Descartes area's Cayley Plains were once the site of volcanic flows. The day's prize find was made by the Houston scientists themselves. With the TV finally on after a second antenna had been aligned with earth, they could direct Duke's attention to a large, football-sized rock that glittered with imbedded black glass fragments. "It's a 'great Scott'-sized rock," said the delighted Duke, recalling the record 22-Ib. specimen picked up by Apollo 15 Astronaut David Scott last year...