Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henderson, 48, a mold-maker in an Atlanta glass company, spent about 1,000 hours carving and engraving a Marlin rifle with the images of Abraham Lincoln, the Liberty Bell and such historical events as the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and the astronauts exploring the moon. "We were just sitting around one evening and my wife said, 'Why don't you do something for the President?' " explains Henderson...
Goddard's grandiose predictions remained widely doubted until his death in 1945. Yet in the 1960s the U.S. spent about $34.5 billion on space programs, culminating in the 1969 Apollo moon landing. In the 1970s the country will spend almost the same amount ($34.1 billion), overwhelming proof that Goddard's dream still has considerable thrust. Two Viking probes are en route to Mars, a Venus probe is scheduled for 1978, and a reusable space shuttle will go aloft the following year...
...field on his Aunt Effie's farm near Auburn, Mass. The 2½ sec. flight carried the rocket to a height of only 41 ft. and a speed of 60 m.p.h. But it convinced Goddard that the science of rocketry would one day land a man on the moon...
...Surrendell, a decaying manoit near Bath that he and some chums have turned into a commune. On one of her visits-both made without her photographer husband Lord Snowdon-Margaret weeded the vegetable patch, then later joined Roddy at the piano to sing Chattanooga Choo Choo and Blue Moon. Some members of Parliament may applaud the idea of the Princess as communard: perhaps she can be persuaded to surrender some of her $70,000-a-year state allowance...
Taxing Subtleties. The art of making steel reached its peak in Japan before the 16th century. Our present technology can dump men on the moon, but it cannot match the crystalline structure, hardness, flexibility and exquisite surface pattern of these ancient blades made in charcoal forges. Compared to Nippon-tō, the swords of Europe are kitchen cutlery...