Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beef jumps over the moon...
...future, and American astronauts have again landed on the moon. Emerging from their spacecraft, they perform such familiar chores as setting up a TV camera, placing various scientific instruments around their landing site, and collecting rocks and samples of the dusty lunar soil. Then they return to the ship to prepare for more far-ranging exploration. When the spacecraft's big hatch reopens, the astronauts scoot out, pedaling away as if they were on bicycles...
...forces thought such celebrating was premature. Physicist Henry Kendall of the Union of Concerned Scientists called the test meaningless because the LOFT reactor has less than 2% of the output of a typical atomic plant. Said his colleague Robert Pollard: "It's like using a kite to prove a moon rocket will work." But LOFT scientists rejected that argument. Said one: "It isn't necessary to crash 747s against buildings to test their safety." One thing was indisputable: the emergency core cooling system did work. Just to make sure that it does the job under different conditions, the Commission will...
...Federal Government, however, has some ways of coping with the cults. At the moment an interagency task force, including members of the FBI, the IRS, the SEC and the State Department, is being organized to investigate the financial transactions of the Moonies. The group will try to determine if Moon sought tax exemption for religious organizations that were set up mainly for business profits or if Moonies had failed to register as foreign agents when they were actually performing that role...
...Shah, also urged Iran's oil workers to repeat last month's two-week strike that cost the country more than $1 billion in crude-oil revenues. As the holiday began, residents of Tehran broke the curfew and crowded into the streets to see if the new moon had appeared, signaling the start of Muharram. Government troops opened fire on the chanting crowd with automatic weapons. Official sources said that nine persons had been killed and 35 wounded, but diplomats, making independent checks, pegged the number of fatalities at a score or more. Two Newsweek correspondents...