Word: final
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel in her Children of Violence series, the author takes her heroine, Martha Quest, from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
Aboard the spacecraft, the astronauts were briskly preparing for the final perilous moments of descent. They had jettisoned the Service Module just before the atmosphere dramatically braked their speed from 24,602 miles per hour to only 168. Then, before the searingly hot gasses that envelop a spacecraft on re-entry blacked out communications, Neil Armstrong reported, almost nostalgically: "We have the moon in the field of view right...
...accomplished without grave risks-from the initial launching atop a rocket brimful of explosive propellants, to the final splashdown in rolling seas. Perhaps most perilous of all were the maneuvers near and on the moon-if only because they had never before been attempted. As the mission reached its climactic moments and Eagle, the lunar module, was curving down to within a few miles of the moon, Eagle's computer reported: "Program alarm." Eagle's on-board computer was being asked to make too many calculations in the frenetic moments before touchdown. It had begun to balk...
Njoroge, a onetime waiter and watch repairman, is a delegate from KANU's Nairobi branch and an errand boy for some Nairobi politicians. Mboya's task in the final months of his life was to find new candidates for the party and unseat its more corrupt elements; his mandate and his actions threatened some of KANU's old hands. Whether one of them asked Njoroge to pull the trigger or whether the assassin acted alone may well prove to be the crucial question of the trial...
...fellowship with the ALC is followed by fellowship with the LCA, says Dr. Richard Jungkuntz, executive secretary of the Missouri Synod's Commission on Theology and Church Relations, there will probably be "some major restructuring" of U.S. Lutheranism within ten or 15 years. Jungkuntz doubts that the final result should be a massive, centrally directed national Lutheran body. Instead, he suggests, the reorganization might encourage decentralized, unified, regional synods, all in communion with one another, meeting regional needs on their own and national needs in concert...