Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APOLLO 15 Astronaut Dave Scott was hardly exaggerating. As he stepped off the ladder of his moon ship Falcon to become the seventh man to walk on the lunar crust, Scott faced the most awesome terrain ever explored: stark mountains, treacherous gorges, strange mounds and craters. "I can look straight up and see our good earth there," he said. A quarter of a million miles away, the world looked up and saw Scott, his peculiar light-footed movements carrying him across color- television scenes of stunning clarity...
Speaking to Midwest news editors in Kansas City, President Nixon referred to federal buildings in Washington and said: "Sometimes when I see those pillars, I think of seeing them on the Acropolis in Greece. I think of seeing them also in the Forum in Rome-great stark pillars-and I have walked in both at night. I think of what happened to Greece and Rome, and you see what is left-only the pillars. What has happened, of course, is that great civilizations of the past, as they have become wealthy, as they have lost their will to live...
...fact, to be stark raving in love can be the best artistic basis. When you're in a rich, one to one love there's not much to say about it. It can't be sold or explained as seems to be the new trend. It's just generally nice. But it makes things tough sometimes because friends, like at Radcliffe, are not always just friends. The distinction can't be that concrete. Which is all beautiful except that that one particular full love resting with one person can't stand sharing. So it's one of the saddest things...
Atypical Situation. Mannheim, commanded by Major Harry Crawford, houses 300 of the 425 G.I. prisoners in Europe and is almost a carbon copy of the worst civilian prison facilities in the U.S. Guarded by four watchtowers with spotlights, the stark brick structure is surrounded by two 7-ft.-high rows of barbed wire. Few if any prisoners at Mannheim are rehabilitated. Homosexuality is rampant and drugs abound. Tension between white and black inmates is so bad that guards simply let each group run its part of the jungle. Says one white inmate: "You can survive if you stay away from...
...stark contrast to Thanh Tay, Phu Loc is a model return-to-village project. Its 200 families came back last April after spending several years as unregistered refugees. In earlier times, Phu Loc was a prosperous hamlet of brick houses on some of Quang Nam's richest river land. Besides raising rice and corn, the farmers had their lucrative silk industry...