Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there is Michael Collins, the man most likely to be forgotten as the pilot of the Apollo 11 mother ship that circled the moon while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to take an extraterrestrial walk. Now a brigadier general (U.S. Air Force, ret.), Collins is director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which will soon house flying relics from the earliest balloons through Skylab...
...autobiography, Collins tells how he sidestepped Army nepotism by joining the Air Force. He became a hot-shot test pilot, was married, and eventually filtered through the rigorous screening process to find his way into the glamorous arms of NASA. This account of Collins' early training and the moon mission adds up to the best-written book yet by any of the astronauts...
...Moon Children, by Michael Weller, continues its run at the Charles Playhouse. This is really fine: funny, sad, and as accurate a portrayal of student life as you're likely to see on the stage. The play is about the people Weller shared a house with during his senior year at Brandeis. If you already know what student life is like, but don't object to good comedies, you'll enjoy it anyway. The Playhouse is located at 76 Warrenton St. in Boston. Friday shows at 7 and 10:30, Saturday at 6:30 and 10, Sunday...
...streets. I promptly bought myself a wineskin and some dirt-cheap red wine, and, with a little practice, I developed a proficiency in squirting the juice into my mouth so that it hit the back of my throat. The night came, the music eddied up toward the moon, and there was dancing in the streets, almost as Hemingway had described it. I was drunk, and winding through groups of elated Spaniards, I regretted that I couldn't speak their language...
...flack kept the publicity flowing. Thousands of dollars went into elaborate signs and banners. The leaders arrived in limousines. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the committee, delivered his final exhortation in Korean, the kids, clutching their American flags, cheering in ecstasy...