Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs that show three distinctly different types of Martian topography. Besides cratered regions, there are huge, flat, featureless areas like the 1,200-mile-long plain called Hellas. There are also vast expanses of jumbled, chaotic terrain, whose short ridges and small valleys are unlike any features on the moon and do not exist on so large a scale on earth. Concludes Caltech Geologist Robert Sharp: "Mars is definitely...
...nothing but shared a belief that their literary squabbles were deadly serious engagements in a battle for the keys to the kingdom of the mind. Scientists, today's high priests, may regard their theories as the most important thing on earth; after all, there is the conquered moon to prove it. But once Carlyle could say, and be believed, that the man of letters is "our most important modern person." Since then, something has happened to reduce the bookman to a mere bookworm. The man of letters, according to Evelyn Waugh, belongs to an extinct species-like maiden aunts...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. Man's first step on the moon lends new immediacy to Stanley Kubrick's epic film about a voyage to Jupiter that assumes awesome metaphysical consequences. Kubrick is one of the best American film makers, and 2001 may be his masterpiece...
...wife found him weak after an eight-day hunger strike but still eager for news of Paris' art and cinema circles and of the moon landing. "If I were with you in Paris," Regis Debray said to Wife Elizabeth, "we would have spent all night seeing this marvel." In his second year of imprisonment for guerrilla activities in Bolivia, the French intellectual says that he is in virtual solitary confinement and went on strike "because there is no possibility of breathing as I am locked up inside all day long." Elizabeth Debray was denied an audience with Bolivia...
...well known for its sacrifice of fact to fancy when the crusading spirit is upon it. As recently as seven weeks ago, Pearson was caught with his facts in the wastebasket when he charged that President Nixon had tried to dictate a starring role for himself in the Apollo moon-flight ceremonies. Anderson's reconstruction of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph Gargan to take the blame for Mary Jo Kopechne's death, then changed his mind during the night. Anderson...