Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing up and saying "No!" to Khrushchev has done more for American prestige in this part of the world than 20 American spacemen landing on the moon. Turks-"fiercely anti-Russian"-have complete confidence in the wisdom of America's attitude toward Khrushchev and Castro...
...Engineering Corp. last week broke into the charmed if turbulent circle of major aerospace contractors. Edging such bigger birds as General Dynamics and Boeing, Grumman was awarded NASA's $350 million initial contract to build the lunar "bug" that, it is hoped, will land Apollo astronauts on the moon by 1970. The 12-ton bug, called LEM (for Lunar Excursion Module), will be like nothing ever seen before: 10 ft. wide and 15 ft. high, with a window-dome top and three strutlike "legs" for landing...
...plan is for LEM to be lofted into lunar orbit along with the main Apollo spaceship, then be detached to carry two of the three Apollo spacemen to the moon's surface (TIME cover, Aug. 10). The bug, equipped with its own landing and take-off engines, will rendezvous later with the orbiting mother craft...
...make a good mate. It offers a large write-off against future taxes. Due largely to development costs on its DC-8 jetliner, its 1959-60 deficits totaled $52 million. Douglas is the contractor for the nation's first airborne ballistic missile, the Skybolt, and for the Saturn moon rocket booster. In addition, Douglas and McDonnell share a $1,800,000 contract, jointly awarded them by the Federal Aviation Agency, to develop a supersonic transport...
...ingenious arrangement of vaguely Iberian arches, would (if they were closer to me) surround the play well enough--even though it has nothing to do with Lorca's instructions. Still, it is only in the last act, when Eric Regener's music throws dread, mystery, and the Moon out on stage, that Blood Wedding really begins...