Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first rounds of spring, so that we remember some of them long, long after we have played them, not on account of any petty personal triumphs or disasters, but from the pure joy of being alive, club in hand. There was one Easter half at school, when the sun was so hot and the ground so dry that I lay and basked on the grass between shots. I can see the particular spot now, just after turning away from the river and the terrific short hole with the solitary willow behind the green. There was another round at Sandwich...
...fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. If all goes well, they will launch an unmanned spacecraft guided with a giant sail to rendezvous with Halley's comet when it next approaches the sun...
...comet, which returns every 74 to 79 years, has long been one of NASA's goals. But using conventional space-flight techniques to rendezvous and keep up with the glowing visitor-which reaches speeds of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour as it approaches the sun-would require enormous amounts of fuel and an impractically large and expensive rocket...
...CALCUTTA, there is a grand hotel with large windows overlooking the streets of the city. During the sun bleached days, one can see from that window a postcard scene of Indians selling trinkets and flowers to the tourists. But at two o'clock in the morning the trinkets and flowers have been sold and the tourists have disappeared. Instead of the deserted, eerie streets of an American city, the view is one of thousands of people without homes, food, or hope, resting wearily in the streets...
Spring is in the air. You can feel it. The sun is out. The Charles smells again. Wierdos fill the Square. Townies line Weeks bridge, asking forcefully for lunch money and beating each other bloody on Saturday nights. Best of all, the red-winged Guy Van Duser (guitar) and speckled Billy Novick (saxaphone, clarinet and penny whistle) will nest in the Winthrop JCR tomorrow night...