Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronomers in Bochum, West Germany, had observed a bright glow on the lunar surface?the same sort of eerie luminescence that has intrigued moon watchers for centuries. The report was passed on to Houston and thence to the astronauts. Almost immediately, Armstrong reported back, "Hey, Houston, I'm looking north up to ward Aristarchus now, and there's an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area. It seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence." Aldrin confirmed his observation. Many scientists believe the glows are caused by lunar eruptions, complete with fire fountains and lava flows...
...turn on its lights. The lives of 100,000 men were risked to let some 200 pilots see their way home. In Viet Nam, 50 planes suspended their air war for eight hours to try to rescue Major Jim Kasler, a popular ace who had gone down over North Viet...
Military officials also insist that the lull is one of those recurrent pauses in which the enemy disengages his troops in order to regroup and resupply. Intelligence reports estimate that the North is still infiltrating 10,000 men per month into South Viet Nam. The Reds continue to cache food and arms in preparation for future offensives...
Progress in the North. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, the Scandinavians were making substantial progress toward creating their own economic alliance. After two weeks of final and frenetic discussions, representatives of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland emerged with a detailed blueprint for a Nordic Economic Community, dubbed Nordek. The draft agreement must still be ratified by the respective Scandinavian parliaments, and there were still difficult compromises to be worked out -notably on dairy products, meat and fisheries. Even so, the consensus was that surprisingly good progress had been made. Targeted by its drafters to go into operation Jan. 1, 1971, Nordek would...
...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...