Word: earth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed required for their 90-sec. trip round the world. After all, spacecraft orbit the earth at 24,000 m.p.h. Heaven only knows where Superman and Lois Lane would end up after attaining 1 million m.p.h...
Located about eight miles southwest of Maui, the 45-sq.-mi. Hawaiian islet of Kahoola we consists mostly of arid red earth and barren rock. It is inhabited only by about 400 wild goats. To the U.S. Navy, the island is an ideal target range; since 1941, pilots have blasted it with millions of tons of bombs, shells and rockets. But to native Hawaiians, Kahoolawe is sacred ground, home of the gentle rain goddess Hina...
...speeches, contemporary issues of TIME (which becomes a character mockingly called the "National Poet Laureate"). One chapter is devoted to the contents of the June 19 New York Times. In the next chapter, Vice President Nixon is shown reading the same issue of the Times, and that patch of earth is scorched once again...
...Earth Gimble, the host, is a preternatural populist. Under a blond tuft of mustache, he sports the same smug smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...
...each year will ever earn their keep on a race track. Fully 65%, in fact, are high-priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high in the sky, the tax shelters are very down to earth, so the wealthy gather every July in Keeneland and Lexington for the Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton Select Summer Yearling Sales. Dripping jewels and dropping the names of noble bloodlines-both human and equine-they have spent nearly $35 million this year on 623 unnamed, untried colts and fillies...