Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty...
...year-old Babylonian art of prediction by analyzing the effect of the planets. France's Jeanne Moreau, for instance, lets it be known that she has her astral reading done annually, because "as an artist and an Aquarius, I especially need reassuring." Comedian Dick Gregory carries something called Moon Sign Book and consults it regularly before making any major decision, on the theory that "all I believe in is Nature, and all of Nature is in the book." Actress Rosemary Harris says that she was overjoyed when she discovered that her co-star in the recent TV revival...
...Madame Frederika, voted most reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon Johnson, and a revival in the popularity of the name of Roosevelt...
Though unmanned spacecraft have already landed on the moon, photographed Mars and crashed onto Venus, the more distant planets of the solar system are still beyond the practical grasp of man. None of the rockets now used in either the U.S. or Russian space programs are powerful enough to reach them. Even the huge and yet-unproven Saturn 5, which will carry men to the moon, would require an additional stage to send only a tiny payload on one-way trips, and would require six years to reach Saturn, 16 years to Uranus and 30.7 years to Neptune...
...manufactured for them. Some went galumphing through the sparkling air atop elephants, others drifted down the Congo, past the snapping jaws of crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos. Birds and flowers sang in one enchanted room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers that the man was no more who created this fairyland: the flag was at half-staff...