Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his meteoric rise in Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...
...John E. Keator of the Warfare Systems School, USAF, yesterday expressed doubt that the United States can reach the moon before 1970 in his lecture sponsored by the Department of Air Science...
President Kennedy's target date for a moon flight coincides with an unusually intense period of solar flares or bursts of radiation, he pointed out, which would prove fatal to any space traveler. Twenty-five pounds of shielding per square foot could protect a voyager against the Van Allen radiation belts, he said, but adequate protection from flares would not be feasible because of the greater weight required...
...care where you get the answers," said Kennedy. "If the janitor over there can tell us, ask him." Next Kennedy appeared before the Congress to deliver an unusual midyear State of the Union message. He asked for a $9 billion program to put a man on the moon by 1971, and he placed that request, in a manner smacking more of Hollywood and Vine than of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, close to the top of the U.S. cold war priority list...
...spotted by Hugh ("Binki") Beaumont, one of London's top managers, "who in the theater if you're in with, you've got it made." Beaumont signed her for repertory, threw her into The Reluctant Debutante, a role she was uniquely suited for, and The Moon Is Blue. Then Term's Producer Jimmy Woolf saw her in Moon, called her for a reading. Says Sarah: "When he told me I was being considered for the part with Sir Laurence, I thought: hell, thanks, goodbye-what!" Sixty girls read for the part. Says Pleased Producer Woolf...