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Four Americans had already trod on lunar soil, and the TV picture-the ghostly figure on the ladder, the sharp contrast between the black sky and the sun-drenched land-was strikingly familiar. Yet, for millions of viewers around the world, seeing a fellow man walking on the distant moon was still a wondrous experience. It was a dramatic reminder of what man, at his technological best, can achieve...
...reportage of Nixon Agonistes is often more interesting than its ideology. Much of the territory has been trod before, but with his stylistic gift-a broad sense of satire wedded to an acute political intelligence-Wills makes even his recapitulations entertaining. Wills goes spelunking into Nixon's Whittier prehistory and there finds Frank Nixon, his father, "gloomy and argumentative, black Irishman moving in cloud, with frequent lightnings out of it." His late mother, Wills reports, displayed a "colored photo-portrait of Richard, which was, when one threw the switch, lit electrically from behind like a hamburger king...
Occasionally the family would go horseback riding along Ocean Parkway, but mostly Elliott trod the boards for Charlie and smiled sweetly for photos and fashion shows, a sideline that Lucille got him into. "I thought he liked it," she remembers now, "but maybe it took too much out of him emotionally. He did quite a bit when he was nine and ten, but by twelve he was a has-been. He was too old to be cute...
...generations, [William Shakespeare] has been recognized as the greatest English master of the drama, and quite possibly the greatest handler of the English language, that ever yet has trod this earthly ball...
Some 100 million years ago, when huge dinosaurs still trod the earth, the skies were dominated by a creature equally awesome: the fish-eating Pteranodon. Endowed with a wingspread of 25 ft.* but extremely short, weak legs, the bizarre reptile clearly had to fly to spot and capture its prey. Yet the construction of its wings (unsuitable for continuous flapping) and its large size have long seemed to zoologists almost insurmountable obstacles to flight. "How this animal could get itself into the air from level ground," wrote Harvard Paleontologist Alfred Romer, "is difficult to understand...