Word: hatches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth, including the giant Tsiolkovsky Crater (named for the Russian space pioneer). Next day, some 180,000 miles from earth, Command Module Pilot Evans, who had been out of the spotlight while Cernan and Schmitt walked the moon, took the stage for himself. After emerging from America's hatch, he crawled back, hand over hand, along the side of the ship to the service module's scientific-equipment bay. There he retrieved film that had been shot by automatic cameras while he was orbiting the moon. "Hey, this is great," said Evans, who waved happily...
While he was peering out of the hatch of Apollo 16 onto the lunar landscape, Charles Duke recalls, "I was overwhelmed by the certainty that what I was witnessing was part of the universality of God." When he looked at his fresh footprints in the almost ageless lunar dust, "I just choked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life." Even the sometimes brittle Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, admits that he has changed: "I was a rotten s.o.b. before I left. Now I'm just an s.o.b...
Civil servants are supposed to be nonpolitical toilers in the vineyards of government. To help assure their immunity from temptation-and from the pressures of officials seeking to use them in re-election campaigns-the Hatch Act of 1939 forbade most federal employees from taking "any active part in political management or in political campaigns." "Little Hatch acts" followed in some states and municipalities, covering the local firemen, policemen, clerks and dogcatchers...
...thoroughly estimable state of bureaucratic neutrality-except to a growing number of civil servants who objected to their loss of free speech and association. Recently a few courts have begun questioning the restrictions. Last week a three-judge federal court in Washington, D.C., voted 2-1 to end the Hatch Act's ban on political activity. The court ruled that it was too broad and unconstitutionally vague...
...study closes almost every escape hatch. Technology, it concedes, can multiply usable resources; but if that happens, industries will grow at an exponential rate and will ultimately foul the atmosphere enough to kill most people. Pollution per unit of output could perhaps be cut by three-fourths. But that would do nothing to check the exponential growth of population, and the world would soon run out of arable land, leading to mass starvation. Population growth could be halted; but that would only postpone the cataclysm unless industrial growth were stopped too. If it persisted, output would soon quadruple, canceling...