Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spiritual breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with Lucifer, leaving 266,613,336. Angels are sexless and cannot breed, so this population achieved Z.P.G. at the instant of creation. (Hebrew tradition disagrees; according to the Talmud, new angels are born with every word God speaks...
...wife Mieke, a beautiful blonde he met in The Netherlands, and three children tend to make his Riverside base a kind of Hyannisport West. In Washington, the Tunneys often give quiet dinner parties at their mansion; the wine comes from a well-stocked cellar. Their social circle is an orbit close to the Kennedys, and includes both political and media names...
...student ghetto has become a familiar part of the university city, an often dilapidated, cloistered seedbed for experiments in living. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the ghetto is Miffland-a six-block area of shabby frame homes standing precariously in the orbit of the University, the state capitol and downtown Madison. Three months ago, a small group of Mifflanders occupied four homes, paid no rent and refused to get out; later they declared the houses community property. They are still there, amid mounting controversy. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured the rhetorical barricades last week and reported...
When the Russians started pouring vast amounts of aid into the Arab world, Syria drifted quickly into the orbit of Soviet influence. Moscow is footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated...
...scoop up some soil and beat the Americans back to earth with the first samples of moon material. Luna 15 never achieved that ambitious goal. Several hours after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first mortals to step onto the moon, the Soviet spaceship dropped out of lunar orbit, apparently crashed and was never heard from again...