Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting in the east, The moon did quite the same...
...moon will probably not set for good on moonshining as long as there are enough good ole boys around who prefer white lightning to bonded bourbon. In fact, while the smalltimers are being forced out of business, big operators are holding their own. The "revenoo" recently seized 1,146 gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White...
Astronaut Frank Borman gained global fame on Christmas Eve 1968 when, from the first moon-orbiting space capsule, his voice was heard on radio and TV sets round the world reading from the Book of Genesis. A week later, Borman and Crewmates James Lovell and William Anders were chosen TIME'S Men of the Year. Yet Borman soon learned that man does not live by glory alone. In 1970, the onetime fighter pilot, then 42, joined Eastern Air Lines as a vice president with vaguely defined duties. "People thought I was going to be some kind...
...City of Cambridge lured the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into Kendall Square to develop a $60 million electronic research center that was to help pave America's way to the moon and provide a gleeful MIT with a wealth of related research jobs. To make way for NASA the city relocated some businesses and tore down others, resulting in the loss to Cambridge of nearly 3000 jobs...
Five years later, America had reached the moon and NASA had not even begun construction. Harried by spending cuts and encouraged by President Nixon maneuvering against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the space agency pulled out. It willed the land to the Department of Transportation, which put its regional headquarters on a five acre plot and, two years later, decided to leave the remaining 24 acres of empty land to Cambridge...