Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many fictional characters, including Antoine de Saint-Exupery's charming "Little Prince," who lives on asteroid B-612 and cleans out its two active volcanoes with a plumber's helper. But real-life spacemen have largely ignored the small, airless planets in their race to reach the moon and Mars...
Primitive as West New Guinea is, Indonesia's President Sukarno is determined to keep it as his own hobby. Hours after the changeover from Dutch to U.N. control, a planeload of Indonesian officials flew into Hollandia to "help" the U.N. They promised the moon: $100 million worth of development aid, 2,000 teachers, establishment of a West Irian university. Purpose of pledges: to con the Papuans out of any independence movement that might jeopardize control by Indonesia, the new imperial power in the area...
...relatively small to begin with, about the size of Oregon (94,000 sq. mi.). It contains the source of the Nile in Lake Victoria, which, next to Lake Superior, is the world's largest freshwater lake. On its western borders rise the famed Mountains of the Moon; on the east, the towering 14,178-ft. Mount Elgon. In between stretch 500 miles of open meadow and sparse forest filled with elephants, gazelles, elands, lions and leopards. Typically, Uganda is also unstable, since its 6,845,000 people are riven by tribal, religious, economic and linguistic differences. There...
Once the men in the space program had done their best and then depended on luck; now they are prepared to take success for granted, rather than being surprised or relieved by it. On the long road ahead to the moon, there may yet be setbacks and disasters, but last week's shot guaranteed that they will be accepted as the price of enterprise, not as discouraging proof of backwardness...
...their ancient-history courses. The Jetsons have a robot maid, a sort of Hazel with gears. Father comes home from work and says he has had a hard day at the button. Little Elroy asks his mother to tell him the story about the cow that degravitated over the moon. The show is silly and unpretentious, corny and clever, now and then quite funny...