Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clasp the moon in the ninth...
Married. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin Jr., 45, second man to step on the moon as a member of the 1969 Apollo crew and later the victim of a nervous breakdown described in his autobiography, Return to Earth; and Interior Decorator Beverly Van Zile; both for the second time; in Baja California...
Fragile Document. If, as many geologists suspect, there is oil and other mineral wealth in Antarctica, who owns it? In the first half of the century, seven nations claimed pie-like slices of Antarctica. Now, since the signing of the treaty, Antarctica is in effect international ground-like the moon-where military activity or nuclear testing are prohibited. But as Geologist Robert H. Rutford, head of NSF's office of polar programs, explains: "While the treaty has so far held up, it is at best a fragile document. The major test is sure to come on the resources issue...
...what of this album is seasoned rock mastery; the how has to do mostly with the way Drummer Keith Moon ignites Peter Townshend's wry melodies...
Legend Confirmed. "The greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." That sounds like Richard Nixon's blurt on the Apollo 11 moon landing, but it was written in the 16th century by a Spaniard named Lopez de Gomara, after men knew Christopher Columbus had found not Cathay but a wholly new "fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent...