Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN TOLD by people in the space administration," says science fiction writer Gene Roddenberry, "that if Star Trek had still been on the air at the time, NASA would not have had a cut in its budget...
...words sound as if they come from a Star Trek script. In fact, says a serious young Scottish science writer and part-time astronomer named Duncan A. Lunan, they may well be true. Writing in Spaceflight, a publication of the British Interplanetary Society, Lunan, 27, says that the words are his translation of a message that may have been relayed to earth by a robot spacecraft from a highly advanced civilization far beyond the solar system. More astonishing, Lunan adds, the automatic vehicle may have been circling the moon for thousands of years, waiting patiently for earthlings to acquire...
...Grateful Dead. Last I heard, my Dead freak friends were laying in provisions for a long trek to Springfield in Straus' BMW, on which they've scrawled, "Garcia is God." The plan is to see the Dead twice, there and at Boston Garden. And I know a guy who knows another guy who's seen the Dead thirty five times in the last year or so. Okay. I don't mind the Dead, but the prospect of seeing one of those five hour "Evenings with the Dead," twice in one week has the same effect as being forced to view...
...visiting Brown band and a group of loyal fans that made the trek from Providence started to make a lot of noise in the third to rally their seemingly defeated team. The Bruins came alive in response to the hooplah, tying the score...
Yesterday was the day after the big match of the year, and not many of Harvard's fencers wanted to trek up to Hanover, N.H., to meet a weak Dartmouth squad. Consequently, only three varsity "starters" faced the Big Green, but it didn't matter much as the Crimson turned back its rural adversaries...