Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing the astronauts did not observe was Apollo's companion in lunar orbit?the Soviet Union's unmanned Luna 15 moon probe (see p. 17). Arriving in the neighborhood two days before the U.S. spacecraft, Luna went into an orbit as close as ten miles from the moon and eventually landed. The chances that Luna would be visible from Apollo 11?much less collide with it?were estimated by Houston's Christopher Columbus Kraft, director of flight operations, as about "one in a billion...
SPEEDING toward their dramatic rendezvous with the moon last week, the Apollo 11 astronauts were aware that they would have company in the lunar neighborhood. With the aid of periodic news reports from Houston, they were able to keep track of the progress of Luna 15, the unmanned Soviet moon probe launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome three days before their blast-off from Cape Kennedy. The Russians cloaked Luna's mission in characteristic secrecy. Some scientists speculated that it was a "scoopy" shot designed to dig up some lunar soil and return it to earth before a manned Apollo...
...feature stories about black businessmen. Eventually, B & B expects to distribute its stamps nationally, possibly in white areas as well. Powell and his officers promise to extend to white communities a B & B policy of devoting 20% of profits earned in any area to scholarships for children of the neighborhood...
...needs a mother's helper four mornings a week to care for only two babies; who can't make an average dress for under $25 and who needs a $45 dinner party once a week, is not a representative sample of any Illinois homemakers I know. My neighborhood had a healthy howl over that...
...York has been particularly tense since the fight over neighborhood control of schools pitted Negro leaders, as well as city hall, against the heavily Jewish teachers' union (TIME cover, Jan. 31). For years, of course, neo-Nazi groups have also been taunting-and provoking-Jews...