Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, Carter was virtually inviting that kind of criticism with a trip that had no clearcut goals and was grievously overloaded (seven nations, three continents and 18,500 miles, all in the space of nine days). Yet even as Air Force One returned the President and his wife to Andrews Air Force Base at week's end, the gaffes were beginning to fall into proper perspective. Amused Poles were now laughing at the translation goof that seemed to have Carter saying that their desires for the future were carnal. Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indicated a relaxed White House...
Many astronauts say that the most spectacular sight they have seen in space is their own planet, a fertile blue ball glowing in a black void. Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart has a somewhat different view. In an interview in Co-Evolution Quarterly, a magazine devoted to ecology, Schweickart says, among other things, that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions...
Last month he called on his soldiers to "firmly defend our independence, sovereignty and territory, including our frontiers, offshore islands, waters, continental shelf and air space"-and sent 60,000 troops into the Parrot's Beak. This was the largest force that Viet Nam had put into the field since the two-week battle for Xuan Loc in April 1975, which sealed the doom of Saigon...
...decision to move Prince House in March or April was made after a cost study revealed that it was cheaper to relocate the building than to construct a comparable space, Leahy said...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Space Committee is currently trying to find a suitable use for the building, Leahy added. Proposals under consideration include relocation of the freshman dean's office and freshman seminar rooms to Prince House...