Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER, PAUL AND MARY: SEE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (Warner Bros.). Contrary to the prophecy of cynics, PP&M have stuck together in spite of marriages, babies and success. But, except for two songs that recall their former magic (The Rising of the Moon, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), their latest recording suggests that they have about played out their tune...
...eight U.S. states and most of Canada's Ontario province. In 12 bewildering minutes?in less time than it would take an intercontinental missile to reach the U.S. from Russia?30 million people were plunged into blackness and bewilderment. And, in a society that has peered at the moon's hidden face and unlocked the secrets of matter, its origins seemed as impenetrable as the great blackout itself...
...blitz, no man was an island. A blanket on the ground, as Henry Moore recorded in his drawings of Londoners huddled in air-raid shelters, can be a great leveler. To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon...
...radiation from their material counterparts, making them useless for identifying distant antimatter. On the other hand, one unmistakable characteristic of matter and antimatter is that whenever the two meet they annihilate each other. This leads Alfvén to concede that two bodies in the solar system-the moon and the sun-are indisputedly composed of matter. There was no annihilatory reaction when Soviet and U.S. rockets hit the moon; there is no such reaction when particles streaming from the sun encounter the earth's atmosphere...
...Russians know why their space ship Luna 7 cracked up in its effort to make a soft landing on the moon last month, they are not telling...