Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...porticoed town hall, Peter Harmon asserts that he has a knack not only for finding water but also for stranger things, like out-of-the-body trips. "I've been to the moon," he announces with utter solemnity. Then, before a skeptical visitor can mutter "Really?" Harmon explains that he once encountered a moon-walking NASA astronaut at a meeting. "The fellow said to me, 'My gosh, didn't I meet you somewhere before?' " Harmon chuckles. But the apostle of science, shaking his head, does not laugh. Because Harmon clearly believes his own story...
Still pronouncing himself unconvinced, the skeptic is invited by Spokesman Kaufmann, an irrepressible, retired Madison Avenue public relations man, to try his own luck with the dowsing rods in the backyard of Injunjoe's cabin colony. It is already late in the evening. A full moon is casting an eerie light on the scene. The skeptic moves forward, tightly gripping the twin rods and saying, "I am seeking water. I am seeking water." Suddenly the rods swing apart. Have the rods found water? Or did they simply slip apart from the motion of the skeptic's stride? Kaufmann...
Notes on a September morning: Up in the dark out in the Maryland suburbs. Air crisp, sliver of a moon still high. Roar of the Potomac River's great falls from over the hill. George Washington used to tarry there. Headed down the valley to breakfast with Jimmy Carter, 189 years after George, but land still beautiful in first light Mist rising over water. Sun burnishing the East. Past Teddy Roosevelt's hiking island, Lyndon Johnson's memorial pine thicket, John Kennedy's flame. Glorious city ahead in sparkling dawn. Everything looks, feels better with President...
...APPARENT new unity of the band makes the recent death of drummer Keith Moon that much more tragic. Moon was always best known as the scourge of hotel managers across the world, but he was also one of the few rock drummers with a distinctive style--a feverish, restless beat that must have reflected his self-consuming way of life...
...Fellows include Sang Moon Chang, a South Korean diplomat and Chief of Protocol, Raymond M. Dafter, a British journalist, Peter Lynn Sinai, an Indian diplomat, and Kifle Wodajo, who resigned in 1977 as Foreign Minister in the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia...