Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Locust, 2:30, 7:15 and Brother Sun, Sister Moon...
Space is the glossiest and one of the most expensive new shows of the fall season. It is a futuristic Arthurian fantasy in which 311 workers in a lunar space station are cut off from earth when a giant explosion hurls the moon onto an uncharted trajectory. Led by the intrepid commander, John Koenig, the crew overcomes such obstacles as Gwent, the man turned machine; Arra (played by Margaret Leighton), the queen of the enormous planet Astheria; and the temptress of the heavens, the Guardian of Piri. The special effects far exceed anything on Star Trek. They include fleets...
Died. Frederick Glidden, 67, better known by his pen name Luke Short, Illinois-born author of more than 50 hell-bent-for-leather Westerns, some of them later adapted into successful movies (Ramrod, Vengeance Valley, Blood on the Moon), all of them turned out with a plot formula he described as "writing myself into a corner, then writing my way out again"; of cancer; in Aspen, Colo...
...bread sandwich, "Pig in a Poke"-a sobriquet that many seem to think fits the Superdome itself. Others, like Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, prefer to think of it as "the greatest structure of its kind ever envisioned by mankind." One of its throatiest boosters has been New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, a canny politician who calls the edifice "an exercise in optimism," and doubtless would like to see it called the Moondome...
...reasoning. He had earlier predicted the existence of a positron, or positively charged counterpart of the electron. The positron was subsequently discovered during cosmic-ray experiments in 1932, but the monopole proved more elusive. Physicists searched for it without success in everything from ocean-floor minerals to meteorites and moon rocks...