Word: lunar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scorched Planet. Kohoutek's arrival comes at a remarkable stage in man's exploration of the solar system. Scientists are still sifting through the mass of lunar measurements, pictures and rocks brought back to earth by the Apollo astronauts. From the data gathered by Russia's Venera 7 and 8 landers, America's Mariner 2 and 5 flybys, and radar observations by the Mojave telescope, astronomers can now describe in some detail the hellish surface temperature (900°F.), cratered topography and atmospheric conditions of cloud-shrouded Venus. Using the startlingly good pictures transmitted by Mariner...
Alcoholism landed Lowry in the Skid Row ward at New York's Bellevue Hospital, a searing experience that became the subject of his novella Lunar Caustic. He was also jailed and deported from Mexico, the scene of Under the Volcano, a novel that took ten years, at least four revisions, and the love, patience and help of Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner, a former Hollywood actress. Given Day's cool, unenthusiastic and quite accurate assessment of Lowry's poetry and stories, it comes as something of a surprise to find him pulling...
Stonehenge is his passion. The author argues that the Stonehengers' astronomical virtuosity-they detected a 56-year lunar cycle unnoticed even by modern astronomers until Hawkins' investigation-sprang from an intense feeling that their lives were intimately connected with celestial rhythms. Lunar eclipses, for example, were times fraught with danger; since the arrangement of posts and boulders at Stonehenge allowed prediction of these dark times, the people of Stone Age Salisbury presumably could prepare for them...
...Nile for Amon-Ra about 1500 B.C., is aligned so the midwinter sunrise strikes the altar in the high room of the sun. More than a dozen Maya sites built around 500 B.C. mark the cycles of the sun, and Chichen Itza, like Stonehenge, clearly shows the extremes of lunar movement. On the banks of the Mississippi near St. Louis, observing posts at the largest city-temple complex built by Indian tribes in the U.S. (circa A.D. 800-1 550) chart the solstices and equinoxes. So far the only baffling exception is the hodgepodge of 2,000-year-old designs...
...Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. Grumman officials contend that those troubles are now well behind them and that a merger between Beech and Grumman could provide a tremendous boost for both companies by mating Grumman's strength in research and development (it built lunar modules for the Apollo space program) with Beech's expertise in general aircraft marketing. Hedrick, 63, will surely be a major force in the new company...