Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Being an astronaut takes concentration and patience, and it can be tedious-just like football,"says O.J. Simpson, 29, who ought to know. The star running back of the Buffalo Bills has hung up his cleats for a while to play the space mate of Sam Waterston and James Brolin in Capricorn One, a movie about a manned flight to Mars. "I could never be a real astronaut and sit in that tiny capsule for days," declares the Juice. "I have too much energy." He likes acting though, and plans to try it full time when he retires from...
...Americans living in cities of 50,000 or more, the U.S. is still very much an urban nation. But the Census Bureau finds that the majority of the population has shifted toward the South and West for sun and casual living, and also for a private corner of the space that remains. All over the country, demographers have noted, the urge is to go small-out of central cities to suburbs, out of suburbs to smaller towns...
...called a "very alluring" job offer. In addition to $1.5 million for his shares in the New York Magazine Co. and a continuation of his old annual salary of $120,000 for three years, Felker won the right to start a new magazine, and he has already taken office space in the slightly rundown town house where New York began its independent existence nearly a decade ago. As a keepsake, he asked to buy the overstuffed Naugahyde sofas from his old office at New York magazine. Murdoch gave them...
...build factories in outer space...
...findings, they announced that the results made it impossible to say that there was or was not life on Mars. That has remained NASA's official position. But unofficially, a handful of scientists support the view of Physicist Robert Jastrow, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Says he in a forthcoming article in Natural History magazine: "Although the Viking experiments have contradictory elements, they seem to indicate that life, or some process closely imitating life, exists on Mars today...