Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, on the 157th day of an arcing, 242-million-mile journey across the solar system Mariner 6 reached its destination. In the closest approach to Mars ever achieved by a man-made object, the U.S. spacecraft flew within 2,130 miles of earth's planetary neighbor...
...title is a country widow whose son Boris, a Bolshevik official, resettles her in a Moscow apartment. He turns the apartment into a club for his comrades, and soon Moscow Cooperative Society sausage is replaced by the old lady's gefilte fish. The story ends abruptly with a neighbor's complaint about the smell of boiled fish throughout the building. The last lines hint at ethnic and possibly political troubles in the making...
...space program remained hazy, and a great deal depends on the safe and successful outcome of Apollo 11. But well before the moon flight was launched, NASA was casting eyes on targets far beyond the moon. The most inviting: the earth's close, and probably most hospitable, planetary neighbor. Given the same energy and dedication that took them to the moon, says Wernher von Braun, Americans could land on Mars as early...
...Ellsworth (Maine) American is owned by former U.N. Ambassador and Washington Post Editor James R. Wiggins, and it served him as a modest vehicle for a birthday tribute to an old friend, neighbor and fellow journalist. A 58-line poem in the American carried Wiggins' byline and the following dedication: "To E. B. ('Andy') White of North Brooklin, on His Seventieth Birthday, July 11, 1969." The couplets fondly recall such White pieces as One Man's Meat and Second Tree from the Corner, then conclude with these lines...
...artists, scientists and sociologists. This was of course contrary to the old idea of the architect as solitary creator and was hard to accept. Frank Lloyd Wright, a noted individualist, once snapped: "Gropius, I suppose that if you were planning to have a baby, you would turn to a neighbor for collaboration." "I would," replied Gropius, "if my neighbor was a woman...