Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moving ahead with a variety of other explorations. Two Pioneer spacecraft are now speeding toward a rendezvous with Jupiter. Later this year NASA plans to launch a flyby of Venus and Mercury. In 1974 and 1976, with the help of European scientists, it will send Helios probes toward the sun. In 1977, as a substitute for its highly touted "grand tour" of the outer planets, it hopes to launch two flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. NASA's next probes of Mars will be in 1975, when two Viking softlanders will be launched-timed for a touchdown the following summer...
...presently searching for Robert Shaw, a Miami Herald reporter and Will Corbin, a Gainesville Sun reporter. The two allegedly held a news conference with Bob Savage, a Vietnam Veterans Against the War activist...
...Stockton, sitting anonymous in General Admissions, tried to hide the tears she cried. A half hour later Connors, high on his success, is surrounded in the pressroom. The Stockton family, minus Mr., waits for Dickie on the clubhouse porch, looking out over the grass now singed dusky by the sun's going down. He barely acknowledges them as he trudges by, towel draped around his neck for a shower. How do you greet a beaten Stockton when all the customary reassurances, the buck ups, the next times, the good fights, come as so much rubbing in of failure...
WHEN THE CONCERT STARTED, the sun bore down on the field and the Grateful Dead played a four hour set. Normal Dead enthusiasm was diffused by the sun which scorched into brains which had much of their juices drained by various portions of beer, wine, liquor, LSD, THC, MDA, quaaludes, sopors -- and some horse tranquilizer was reported as well. THC and acid were being sold for $2 a hit in plastic prescription bottles. Someone said there wasn't much Drano around like there was at Woodstock...
Although knowledge and talent have been spent on this ambitious book, two serious objections must be made. One is that to give his earliest Washo non-English speech and thought patterns, Sanchez invents a portentous lingo that just does not work ("Gayabuc, what say you? The Sun is heavy in the Sky, soon it will drop. We have walked the day ... What...