Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known as a space-shuttle orbiter will open up a new age in space exploration-the era of the reusable spacecraft-by taking its first round trip around the earth and back. Last week the first of these craft stepped off on this journey into history. In a daylong trek, the ship was moved 58 kilometers (36 miles) across California's Mojave Desert from the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale where it was built to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. There it will begin tests that will culminate in flights that could...
Robert Bressen's Lancelot of the Lake is an ideal offering for the cineaste who revels in the romanticizing of the age of heraldry and the Round Table. Yet all the painstaking attention to detail and craftsmanship cannot save the film from deteriorating into a ponderous trek through the medieval Britain of King Arthur, a pedestrian piece of work which fails to justify the necessity of its production...
Flaws like these, combined with Bowie's apparent inexperience with his exotic fuseboxes, relegate Low to the category of "interesting experiment." They don't seem in character; did the man who fell to earth land on his head? When the creator of Ziggy Stardust begins to sound like Star Trek soundtracks, you can't help wondering. "Changes" is right: rock 'n rollers have gotten older, and they cannot expect him to retrace old footsteps. But in this redefinition of his idiom, David Bowie has a long way to travel...
...were not about to wait until they reached Washington to begin celebrating. As the Peanut Special rolled toward Savannah past naked cotton-and cornfields and snow-crowned pine and pecan groves, they partied with a vengeance-almost as if they were reversing General William Tecumseh Sherman's earlier trek across the South. Said Sam Simpson, a grocer from Barnesville, Ga., bedecked with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well, I just heard that Washington is frozen." Joseph Wiley Reid...
Neto faces his biggest threat in the south, where Savimbi commands an effective force of 5,000 men. Still a hero to the area's dominant Ovimbundu people, the bearded, beret-wearing UNITA leader completed a 500-mile trek through the south-on foot-urging his tribal brothers to resist the Luanda government. Rallying to his cause, the Ovimbundu have set up underground cells throughout southern Angola...