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...site, the target area is covered with jagged hills and ridges, some of them hundreds of feet high. There are relatively few level sites in the vicinity, and the landing will require all of Command Pilot Lovell's skill. But the Apollo 13 astronauts-whose motto is Ex Luna, Scientia (From the Moon, Knowledge)-are taking the risk because of the area's immense geological importance. Unlike the flatter, smoother lunar maria, the highlands have apparently been little changed since the moon was formed some 4.5 billion years ago; thus their structure and composition will give scientists...
...guess when Look Out for Your Faces will be performed again in Russia. Last week Moscow was buzzing with speculation on which of the show's skits, poems and songs had offended the Central Committee. Among the possibilities: > In one skit, performers hold up letters spelling out A luna kamila, a palindrome meaning "The moon has vanished." An official, hypersensitive about the Soviet failure to get a man on the moon first, might have seen this as a suggestion that the moon had vanished to the Americans. But Voznesensky also includes the line, "They stepped on its soul with...
...split with his wife, who occupies his flophouse dreams and gives him a convenient excuse for not fighting. Then one day, finding himself in a Y.M.C.A. gym, he meets Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old would-be welterweight and sends him to his own long-suffering ex-manager, Ruben Luna. This should be some sort of beginning. But the three are going precisely no place. Tully dries out for one more fight. He wins-but finds his victory meaningless. He wanders the streets realizing that he is a bum. The deprivation of his life is somehow symbolized by the memory...
...with any overwhelming event, the fallout was widespread and sometimes offbeat. Scores of children born last week were named "Apollo" or "Moon," "Tranquillity" or "Luna." The Siam Motor Works offered scholarships from primary school through university for the Thai children born nearest the exact moments of lunar landing and splashdown. The Berlin Zoo christened three wildcat cubs born during the moon walk Neil, Buzz and Mike. For a "moon happening" in Vienna, a bakery produced a 300-lb., 6-ft. cake decorated with marzipan craters...
...treaty is not a detailed code, however, and its provisions are necessarily general. Article XII says that all stations on the moon must remain open to inspection by other states on a reciprocal basis. This might mean that if Russia's Luna 15 had landed with cosmonauts aboard, they would have had the right to look over Eagle. On the other hand, the U.S. could have refused entry by citing the treaty's provision that such inspection must be requested in advance, and must not interfere with normal space operations...