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...accordance with Kenyan law, authorities, pending the trial, would give no information about their suspect beyond his name: Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge. That was plenty. Two of his names identified him as a member of the dominant Kikuyu tribe. Mboya's Luo tribal brothers suspected from the first that his killer belonged to the Kikuyu, traditional foes of the less powerful Luo. Thus new tribal disturbances are likely to erupt when Njoroge goes on trial this week. The plot is complicated by the fact that Mboya, though a Luo, was also a national leader of the Kenya African National...
...should be able to look back down here and see how tiny the earth is," said Rita Moore, an Atlanta secretary. "Maybe we'll be able to see now that we're all on a small planet and we ought to be working together." Said famed Biochemist Isaac Asimov: "It will teach us to be humble. The earth is a small body, a tiny thing lost in a vast universe." The British Interplanetary Society prepared a message for the astronauts on their return, ending with H. G. Wells' prophecy: "When man has conquered all the depths...
...program -which NASA says will come to no more than .5% to 1% of the gross national product (currently running at $900 billion) a year. And the question of priorities will remain relevant as long as such earthly imperfections as poverty and pollution persist. Still, as Science-Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov says, "Man has always had the other side of the hill to worry about"-and he always will. This week the other side of the hill is the moon. Before this century ends, it will almost certainly be Mars -and beyond...
...daily in high schools." What bothered the Times was Goddard's idea that rockets could fly through a vacuum. After Apollo 11 's launch last week, the Times recanted. Under the heading A CORRECTION, the paper declared: "Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error." Date of the offending editorial...
...Ellington to write and perform a piece of music, Moon Maiden. The network also 1) lined up Steve Allen to sit down at a piano and discourse on the moon and romance in popular music, 2) called together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and John Pierce, 3) planned a four-part essay on movie scifi, featuring Flash Gordon and the Clay People, plus clips from Destination Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey and 4) taped James Dickey reading one of his space poems...