Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin, 45, engineer in charge of operations on the Saturn SII rocket, feels that he has a secure marriage, but he fits the pattern to a remarkable degree. Except when a moon shot is in preparation, he plans his day to get home for dinner, chats first with his five-year-old daughter, then with his teenage girl. After dinner at 6:30, he retires to a den, where the family knows he is not to be disturbed. He reads technical material for about two hours, eases his tension by drinking a beer and smoking the one cigarette...
...generation that he paints for. Anyone, Max says, can be U25 if he is "open-minded, youth-oriented." Prince Charles, at 20, is unquestionably U-25, and an ideal subject for Max's "cosmic art." The colors and shapes in his portrait, says Max, and the planet Saturn in the lower right-hand corner, "are all symbols of today, of the Aquarian age, the golden age that we are just now entering." Charles, says the artist, "is an Aquarian prince whether he knows...
...territory this year, and Lily Peter, a wealthy, plantation-owning spinster, decided that a musical tribute would be just the thing to mark the occasion. Trouble is, she conceded, "we are as far removed from the great world of music as if we lived on the rings of Saturn." So Miss Peter, 73, persuaded Composer Norman Dello Joio to write a special work for the sesquicentennial, then hired Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra to come to Little Rock to play it. She mortgaged a small portion of her land to foot the $60,000 bill, meticulously planned the concert...
Though barely two months have elapsed since the successful flight of Apollo 9, the U.S. is poised for yet another space epic. At Cape Kennedy last week, a giant Saturn 5 stood on Pad 39B, and an astronaut crew and NASA technicians methodically ran through a mock countdown in preparation for the launch of Apollo...
...scheduled to make soft landings on the planet's surface. Also proposed is a Venus-Mercury "minitour" using the Venusian gravitational force to whip a satellite on toward Mercury. Perhaps most visionary of all is NASA's dream of "Grand Tour" flights to the "outer" planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The four outer planets will be aligned in such a way that a single craft launched between 1976 and 1978 could fly by all of them. Such an alignment will not recur for 179 years...