Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fred L. Whipple is internationally known for his research on the moon, meteors, and comets. Although retired from the responsibilities of overseeing some 60 Smithsonian scientists engaged in is a slate in name only, with its members holding different positions on major issues, it is expected to help the conservative voter identify his kind of politicians...
Under a bright moon, civilian and military police with dogs patrolled the edges of Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire last week, shooing away the curious townspeople drawn by the steady roar of big jet engines. "The only other time you hear that much activity at night is when the reservists fly in," said Bob James, who owns a gas station near the end of the runway. As he spoke, KC-135 tanker jets labored off the runway, then banked right toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean. During the day, half a dozen blue-and-white Boeing 747s had shuttled...
...constellation Vela and only 1,500 light years away. Thus, when the star that formed Gum exploded-some 10,000 to 20,000 years ago (an estimate derived from the current signal rate of the pulsar)-it probably flared up briefly in the sky as bright as a quarter-moon. It also may have showered the earth with enough dangerous radiation to have produced significant mutations in terrestrial life...
Apostolic salesmanship is not all that is required: the movement's puritanism might impress Cotton Mather. There is no dating; marriage partners for disciples are selected by Moon and his lieutenants. Both men and women submit lists of five candidates and, after counseling, their leaders make a choice. Newly married couples must refrain from sex for 40 days after the wedding ceremony, which is the holiest act of the sect. Moon thunders against adultery and fornication; members who fall, he warns darkly, may never be saved...
...Moon himself, he married for the second time in 1960. His wife, a quietly beautiful woman named Hak-Ja Han, has since borne him four sons and three daughters. Though he recently told followers that his wife has not yet reached his own spiritual perfection, Moon is apparently confident that she will do so eventually. Together, his teaching makes evident, they are the new Adam and Eve, their children the first of a new, perfect world...