Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost alone in the world, the main land Chinese press virtually ignored the moon landing, though one Hong Kong Communist daily headlined: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PRAY: GOD GIVE ME A PIECE OF BREAD, DON'T GIVE ME THE MOON. On the other hand, Italy's Paese Sera, the unofficial Communist evening paper, devoted twelve pages to Apollo and ran a complimentary picture of Richard Nixon. In Paris, even the Communist paper L'Humanite called the moon walk a "dream from the depths of time realized"-although it managed to keep the words United States and American...
Long before the rocks arrived, scientists started to debate the scientific results of the lunar voyage. M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press wagered a case of champagne on his conviction that the moon actually has quakes. Certain that the moon specimens will show some evidence that there was once water on the moon, Dr. Persa Bell, director of NASA's Lunar Receiving Lab, bet a skeptical colleague a bottle of Scotch...
...dispute over moonquakes began when the seismometer left behind by the astronauts suddenly began acting up. The squiggly lines transmitted from the moon, Press concluded, resembled the tracing of the surface waves of a moderate-sized quake on earth. Other geologists, including U.C.L.A.'s George Kennedy, who took up Press's champagne challenge, had different ideas. The shock, they said, might have been caused by a meteorite. Another possible cause: the moon's natural "groaning" under the tug of the earth's gravity...
...seller at the bar at the Houston Press Club was a little something called "The Moonshot" (two ounces of cognac, three ounces of orange juice, and three ounces of champagne). The concoction was so mesmerizing that many hours later one flight controller was still muttering, to anyone still around to listen, "Don't forget that behind me there were eight other good men the public never saw. Just remember, that behind me were eight...
...Humanae Vitae, Suenens was among the liberal European cardinals who flew to Rome to argue against an earlier, even more conservative version. Later he pleaded unsuccessfully against the issuance of Humanae Vitae as well. When Suenens went back earlier this year to oppose new powers for papal nuncios and press for urgent reforms in church administration, resentful conservatives fought back so bitterly that he left Rome in disgust...