Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon was made in 1873 from New York City but soon came to grief and earth in the Catskills. In all, some 17 transatlantic tries had been made before last week's successful flight, and seven lives lost. Abruzzo and Anderson themselves tried it last September but had to come down off Iceland, defeated, like the others, by the distance and the weather...
...Fred MacMurray that has no relation to the insect world. Then, too, one wonders about Michael Caine, the entomologist leading the fight against the winged villains. His lines suggest that there is more to his involvement with the bees than scientific concern, but we never find out what on earth is bugging him. It seems to be Caine's sad fate to go around being intelligent in dumb movies...
...closer to our separated brethren should continue with great understanding, with great patience, and with great love, but without deviating from the true Catholic doctrine." Regarding his own funeral, he asked, "Let it be as simple as possible ... The grave: I would like it to be in the real earth, with a simple covering indicating the place and inviting Christian piety. No monument...
...lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA for all its manned spaceflights. Michael Collins let go of his on his space walk, so a Hasselblad is still circling the earth as Sweden's only satellite...
Everyone has his own idea of how man became man, and of what life was like among the creatures, no longer apes but not yet human, who inhabited the earth more than a million years ago. In 2001, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke presented ape men who evolved, in part, by murdering those of their neighbors who had not yet learned to use clubs. Cartoonists gave us Fred Flintstone and his pet dinosaurs. The epic movie One Million B.C. offered a grunting Raquel Welch dodging various prehistoric beasts and cave men with something more than evolution on their minds...