Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your forthcoming selection has not been so easy in many a moon. I am confident that even the Russians are placing a safe bet it will be that great statesman and worker for peace in our time, Dag Hammarskjold...
...among the Bahama islands. At Sandy Point on Great Abaco Island, their only port of call, they spent a pleasant weekend on the beach, and Dr. Duperrault told Roderick Finder, the British district commissioner, that it had been "a once-in-a-lifetime vacation." That night, under a mellow moon, Bluebelle set sail for Florida...
Carl Sandburg's Poems for Children (Caedmon). Poet Sandburg, in his keening, wonder-struck voice, reads a selection of the short poems that have fueled his public recitations for years. The quieter ones-Buffalo Dusk, Young Sea, Early Moon-are fused with a sense of mystery that any receptive child can feel...
Beautiful As the Moon. Near the end of the 8th century, the mighty King Jayavarman II founded the first great dynasty of Angkor, and for the next 300 years the Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...
Lederberg expects his no-return lab to reach the moon about 1964; a more sophisticated package of life-seeking instruments should be landed on Mars about 1967. The worried geneticist is especially pleased to hear from the space blacksmiths that manned, two-way journeys even to the moon will be unlikely for at least a decade. By the time the first human starts home from Mars, the earth's biologists should know enough about Martian life to keep it from damaging life on the home planet...