Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball, hurtling around the planet at 18,000 m.p.h. An NBC radio announcer that October in 1957 bade his audience: "Listen now, for the sound which forever separates the old from the new." And over thousands of radios, from somewhere in space, came an eerie beep ... beep ... beep...
September 1969. Today I met Albie. Albie is the curious fellow who roams Soldiers Field, spouting such phrases as. "Go home, go home, no game today, no game." There is something strangely entertaining about watching Albie direct some crusty alumnus to a proper parking space and watching the alumnus try to reason with him. As I saw Albie for the first time, former baseball coach Loyal Park grabbed my arm and said. "Hey, see that fella over there. That's what happens when you coach here too long." (That's not the only thing that happens...
...education program, the National University of San Diego, where the average age of students is 30, has grown in seven years to a 15-acre downtown campus and an enrollment of 3,400. At a well-promoted $60 per credit point, New York's Mercy College has rented space for adult education in a busy Yonkers shopping center; Mercy also has a branch 1,300 miles away in Miami's "Little Havana," where bilingual courses are taught. Says a school spokesman: "We build approaches to possible courses as one would market a product...
...elevator opens into deep space. A familiar trio steps onto a starship wing. One actor has pointed ears. Another, raised to admiral's rank since his last mission, walks with familiar jut-jawed rectitude. A third shuffles toward the wing's edge with the rumpled calm of a country doctor. A beautiful woman, all the more striking because she has no hair, and a young flight officer stare straight ahead. When the cameras stop rolling, a makeup aide moves in to slap some goo on the woman's head-she shaves twice a day to avoid...
...Spock's bride, who has had all of five lines. More than 50 books, not counting graduate theses, have been written, and a Detroit station has been running the program every day for nine years. In honor of the show, the White House even renamed the new space shuttle Enterprise...