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...Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the first food eaten there were Communion elements. Just before I partook of the elements, I read the words which I had chosen to indicate our trust: John 15: 5, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit...
...made it back to the Owl Club despite the driver's reluctance to go anywhere. The party continued as the remaining members and punchees partook in what a guest described as "sort of a saloon brawl...
Though he loved the masses, Eastman did not neglect individuals. "To me lust is sacred." he writes, "sexual embraces nearer to a Holy Communion than a profane indulgence-a partaking, so to speak, of the blood and body of Nature." He partook generously. Leaving his wife and child, he moved in with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking...
...they did so again last week. Said an official Soviet Government and Communist Party announcement: "We regard these victories in the conquest of outer space not only as the achievement of our people but as an achievement of all mankind." However chagrined U.S. scientists felt last week, they also partook of the Russian triumph...
...woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception" of his own divinity, and the sweeping abolition of the stiff-necked nobility, to the entirely novel proposition (in famed Article 24 of the constitution) of equal marital status for women. Michiko partook of these changes in the protected society of one of Japan's newly rich families. For millions of other Japanese women it has been a wrenching experience...