Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both the book and the film version of The Shop on Main Street were flops in Czechoslovakia, undoubtedly because of the guilty consciences of the people depicted. They chose to ignore the book and to walk out of the movie in mid-performance. Only the success of the film in the U.S. has changed this lethargy into a willingness at least to accept the honors...
...Presbyterian missionary parents, Reischauer is married to a member of a distinguished Japanese family, speaks the language fluently and is one of the world's leading authorities on Japanese history. In scores of articles in Japanese publications and in close personal contacts with Japanese from virtually every walk of life, the ambassador-who was respectfully labeled sensei, honorable teacher-was a powerful influence in restoring the nation's self-confidence...
...Lincoln Brower, 34, is leaping after lepidoptera to check out a theory that the color patterns of butterflies edible to birds are evolving toward the color patterns of nonedible butterflies, as a measure of survival. Last week Entomologist Dennis Hynes, 37, of California State Polytech, slipped on snowshoes to walk atop thigh-deep drifts on Washington's Mount Baker and bring back iceboxes filled with larvae specimens of a crop-killing insect called the crane...
Mission photographs were disappointing-the team brought back no movies or still pictures of Collins' two EVAs or of the earth from the 476-mile record apogee. Young's films of the space walk showed nothing but blurry blue sky. Ironically, the best black-and-white movies show nothing more enlightening than the crew mugging in the spacecraft with a free-floating camera. Even so, NASA officials were quick to point out that the crew did shoot the first daylight pictures of a docked Gemini-Age-na-and one of the most spectacular views of the earth...
...full space walk (at lower altitudes) during which Pilot Gordon will manipulate a battery-operated wrench to fasten and unfasten several bolts on a plate outside the spacecraft...