Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comrades! we are here to engage in a peaceful competition with the aggressive capitalists! Our victory is inevitable! Only last year the Soviet Union surpassed the United States in trade with Poland (applause). The Soviet pennant flies on the moon (cheers)> Yet the Soviet Union seeks only one thing. And what is that thing, comrades...
Little Uganda (pop. 6,500,000, area 93,981 sq. mi.) has a variety all its own. The high Ruwenzori-the fabled Mountains of the Moon-tower over lush low lands where bananas grow in wild profusion and where a golf course allows a free stroke if the ball lands in a hippo's deep hoofprint. For the British, management of the motley protectorate has always been a matter of reconciling the demands of Uganda's proud tribal rulers, the Kings of Ankole, Toro, Bunyoro, and above all of Buganda, biggest of the four...
...exhibit were miracles of deft design and precision workmanship. Others were not working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about a crude device for exploring the moon: "It's wonderful what a kid can do with an Erector...
...jointed robots for exploring the moon (see cuts) were outlandish contraptions; some of them were serious and imaginative attacks on the difficult problem of studying the lunar surface before humans learn how to survive there. RCA showed a six-legged job that walks cautiously on circular rubber feet, a small six-legger that looks like a metal praying mantis, an inflated plastic ball, and a moon rover that creeps like a centipede. Perhaps the best thought out of the tribe was an insectlike machine made by Space-General Corp. Powered by solar batteries, it walks on long, jointed metal legs...
Hollywood's aging (54), Austrian-born enfant terrible in the past has bulldozed sparkling performances even out of Frank Sinatra and Gene Tierney, turned out a succession of hits, from wittily naughty The Moon Is Blue to Exodus. For three weeks now he has been turning all Washington into a stage and making all its politicians merely players-and only walk-ons at that...