Word: sheparded
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When Astronaut Alan B. Shepard carried the game of golf to new heights last month, he claimed one of his private moon shots-unhindered by any air or much gravity-went "miles and miles." Ha! says Dr. Gordon Swann of the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied the photographs and sees a ball about 20 yards from the tee-off point. "Around the moon-plus 20 yards," cracks Shepard. But the ball in the photo was not the "miles-and-miles" shot anyway, he adds; that one, he re-estimates, went about 400 yards-"not bad for a six-iron...
...Shepard's reputation as the world's most famous golfer was short-lived. That spotlight has been pre-empted by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, whose recent bopping of three onlookers in a single day's club swinging loosed a flood of wit and wisecracking on a global scale. Comedian Bob Hope made his contribution at a White House dinner last week. "Some people," he said, "think President Nixon should send Agnew to Laos with a three-wood." Noting that the Vice President has earned a "black belt in golf," Hope said that he did not mind...
...that man belongs in space, that man can achieve objectives well beyond the capabilities of any machine that has yet been devised." Although he has not been overly enthusiastic about the space program lately. President Nixon also was exhilarated. "You gave all of us older fellows hope," he told Shepard, who at 47 is the oldest American ever to venture into space...
...Shepard and his fellow moon walker, Ed Mitchell, shared that view. In a televised news conference from space, they insisted that their spine-tingling climb up the side of 400-ft.-high Cone Crater was not overly fatiguing and that it was cut short 100 yds. or so from the crater's rim only because time was running out. But they still seemed to disagree on one point. Mitchell, who had wanted to continue the hike over Shepard's protestations, said the rolling, boulder-strewn terrain made it extremely difficult for them to keep their bearings. "You simply...
Pictures taken by the astronauts on the moon and released at week's end seemed to support his opinion; all showed a nearby and relatively featureless horizon that would make it difficult for explorers to get their bearings. But Shepard demurred. "I don't believe that we were disoriented or lost at any time," he insisted...