Word: earthed
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Whatever detractors the Vice President may have in the U.S., there is a tiny corner of the earth where Spiro Agnew can do no wrong-the Greek town of Gargaliani. Agnew's father emigrated from there to America 72 years ago, changing his name from Anagnostopoulos and becoming a U.S. citizen. As a first-generation native American, Spiro never spoke his father's native tongue (his mother was American) and is more attuned to Lawrence Welk than to the bouzouki. But in Gargaliani, blood, not tongue, is what matters: the Vice President is revered as a local...
During their 32-hour moon visit, Conrad and Bean will take two walks, each lasting about four hours. Back on earth, television viewers will see all this in color. Following the advice of the Apollo 11 crew, the two astronauts will perform their own moon dance to get the feel of one-sixth gravity. Then they will go about collecting rocks and carrying out a series of sophisticated experiments. One of the astronauts will be lowered into a crater by his teammate to look around and to gather samples...
Babylon, for example, was the first great city of the ancient world; according to the Bible, it was "the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." Ancient Athens, for all its architectural and intellectual glory, was scarcely more than an overgrown slum; the grandeur of Rome was overshadowed by its ramshackle ghettos, crime rate and traffic jams. Sanitation was so bad in the Paris of Louis XIV that two miles from the city's gates a traveler's nose would tell him that he was drawing near. Scarcely anyone today needs to be told about how awful...
Information on every kind of tool and trade and new idea is listed, from organic gardening to Moog synthesizers. It tells you where to learn about hitch-hiking, tantra art, the domain of man, and altered states of consciousness. You hear of magazines that give you earth beauty and ones that give you "practical information on two-strategies of survival if national affairs get funny: Hiding and running." There are toys, lists of schools filled with the ecstasy of education, books that teach you how to make a whole environment out of any environment from commune to suburb. The reviewers...
...however. Whole Earth Catalog is a tool. Wander through it, admire it, be sure to use it. The worlds resting in its pages are wide open for those ready for the adventure, but it will be worth nothing if it is not allowed to function as it is designed. It is a good thing: let it lead you on to better things...