Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because Mercury is so close to the sun, astronomers long believed it was the victim of captured rotation. Just as the earth's gravity has locked the near side of the moon toward it, they theorized, the sun's enormous gravity had caused the same hemisphere of Mercury to face the sun perpetually, with never a dawn or sunset...
...paddocks of Sherwood Ranch, a once-prosperous farm in African "territory" on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. It is presumably in Bechuanaland, being also north of Kipling's "great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," and whatever its political future, a colonist would probably do better on the moon...
...father to do, muses Tenintius as he disconsolately fondles a slave girl, his heart heavy and his country destitute. Cloud-borne, the answer descends heavily from the grid. The goddess Diana (Anthony Fingleton) has landed in Beotia. As it turns out, the goddess of chastity, and the moon ("Would you like to see why?"), can't find any takers on Olympus. She's come to earth to correct all that. "People," she sings philosophically, "are better than nothing...
...There are those who feel we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty before going to the moon. But if the human race had waited for the elimination of poverty before expending energy on exploration and innovation, we would all still be living in caves...
...going to continue to work hard for a socialist society. There is enough here for everyone, but we must learn to share it equally." Did the President have any travel plans? "Yes," snapped Sukarno with a swish of his silver-mounted swagger stick, "I am going to the moon." That drew a wry rejoinder from Foreign Minister Adam Malik, seated near by. "It is impossible," said Malik. "I have not approved his visa." Malik, roared Sukarno, was quite "a jokester...