Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Astronaut Geologist Dr. Harrison Schmitt seems to have learned something about memory as well as about the moon when he took his lunar stroll last year: "My moon walk was so brief that few impressions were implanted in my mind. Every now and again I start to tell somebody about something I saw on the moon, and I realize I'm telling about something I saw in a picture...
...says U.S. Senator Floyd Haskell of Colorado, who along with others is concerned about triggering earthquakes. "I just don't know what would happen seismically after you've wracked the earth 140 times," says Thomas Ten Eyck, Colorado's Director of Natural Resources. In addition, Denver Geologist David Evans believes that the blasts would create subterranean radioactivity that would sooner or later seep into the Colorado River system-and contaminate the drinking water of 27 million people in seven states...
INTERIOR. John C. Whitaker, 46, who was briefly secretary of the Cabinet and then assistant director of the Domestic Council staff, is now Under Secretary of the Interior. A geologist who once worked for the Standard Oil Co. of California, he has been a Nixon campaign associate for nearly 20 years. Although Interior Secretary Rogers Morton insists that he welcomes Whitaker, the two were rivals in Maryland political battles...
...Florida accident: "I kept thinking, I'm alive. Thank God. But I wondered why I was spared. I felt, it's not fair; everyone else is hurt. Why aren't I?" Recalling his own escape from a crash at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Geologist Richard Ojakangas remembers...
...obtain a view of Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt and the startling orange soil that Schmitt had discovered at Shorty Crater. Geologist Schmitt also proved an adept lensman, but as might be expected, he showed more of an eye for lunar rocks than for his fellow astronaut...