Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly cyclical U.S. aerospace industry, stability had been as elusive as a wispy contrail against a clear blue sky. Just when things were going well, something would go wrong. Recession, the climax of the Apollo moon-landing program, President Carter's scrapping of the B-l bomber project: all these riddled industry profits and caused huge layoffs in Southern California, Seattle and other aerospace centers. Currently, the industry is making an upward thrust, fueled by fat military and commercial order backlogs. But the present climb is expected to level off at a comfortable plateau, and the old boom...
...result, the project stirred controversy as hot and heavy as a tabas-coed gumbo. However, as silver-haired Mayor Moon Landrieu, one of the dome's founding fathers, points out, in terminable legal challenges and investigations failed to produce a single indictment or even a documented charge of hanky-panky (though in Huey Long country it is hard to believe some politicians did not profit, at least indirectly, from the project). However, Le Maire insists, "Only politicians could have put this thing together. It could never have been built by a blue ribbon commission. Sure, we made mistakes...
...Harvard Med School will give you a great chance to brush up on bestiality at a seminar on "Courtship Behavior in Different Species," featuring Dr. Antonio Asturias, Professor of Sex Education (no lie), at the U. of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Go to 45 Shattuck St. and moon a monkey...
...surefire confessional books are about to appear. In Soul on Fire (Word), out in February, ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver testifies that after years spent as a prisoner of Marxism and hate, he finally found peace when he saw the face of Jesus in the full moon over Cannes. Cleaver was later converted by a prison "God squad." In Will You Die for Me? (Revell), due in April, Charles ("Tex") Watson, leader of the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders, tells how he supplanted Charles Manson with Jesus Christ. Watson, a mandatory lifer, now preaches three times a month and teaches...
...video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development is quite useless...