Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...item and forgot to close a circuit breaker in Orion. Result: when the Lunar Module was finally cast loose from the mother ship, its computer could not fire its small thruster rockets. Thus, Orion could not be sent crashing back onto the moon's surface, where telling shock waves from its impact were to have been recorded by sensitive seismometers. Instead, the now-useless craft was left to orbit indefinitely around the moon...
...Republic of China clearly won a battle of images in its first exchange of permanent representatives with the U.S. Installed in the Peking zoo were Milton and Matilda, two woebegone musk oxen that arrived with scraggly coats and postnasal drip brought on by the climate change and general cultural shock. Last week, the Chinese part of the exchange, the giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (pronounced Shing-Shing), took up residence at the National Zoological Park in Washington, where they were welcomed by Pat Nixon. Still too young to mate, they will live in separate air-conditioned suites, each...
...Afrikaner splinter candidate by an unusually wide margin. "An inspiring test of strength," beamed Prime Minister Vorster. Opposition leaders, though, insisted that Oudtshoorn-which is best known in South Africa for the ostriches it raises-was hardly an index of the national mood. "The Afrikaners here will get a shock," said one United Party politician, "when they, like their ostriches, take their heads out of the sand...
...they come from so called "national associations--their supposed purpose is to "protect society from the 'mentally ill'"--they seize them unlawfully, they confine them in institutions against their will, and--rather than making them work like the slaves of days past--they perform operations on their brains--electric shock them, and use them for experimentation with addicting drugs. Color makes no difference with the determination of who is a slave. The "experts", the psychiatrists are the ones to decide. This slavery must be abolished now! Times must change! You can help, and you help is needed. Contact Jeff Friedman...
...driving force behind the changes is the John F. Kennedy Library Center--and the mood it has created among Harvard Square businessmen, residents and civic groups approximates future shock...