Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...
...will not allow the astronauts to open the Apollo hatch until a plastic tunnel has been extended to the spacecraft from a 35-ft., hermetically sealed van placed near by on the carrier deck. Carrying 50 Ibs. of lunar rock and soil samples in steel vacuum cases, they will walk through the tunnel into the van. There, in the company of a doctor and an engineer, they will be completely isolated from the outside world. When the carrier reaches a U.S. port, the van will be flown intact to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Only then will NASA allow...
...American Embassy in Havana is a good walk from the center of town, down a long hill bordered by paint-peeling houses. Nine years ago, before Fidel Castro's sudden revolution, American tourists used to take a taxi up the hill into Cuba's gleaming capital. Today, there is almost no traffic on that road. The real center of power is elsewhere. The slit-windowed, modern United States Embassy on the seafront no longer dictates the politics and the economics of this island. The scrupulously neutral Swiss now handle American interests in Cuba, and that means handling the unceasing trickle...
...Business?") and his growing fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League. It's not true they're responsible for crime in America"). But he had the old, keen eye for human foibles: a Hindu trying (unsuccessfully) to walk on water, a fluff by Barry Goldwater ("No American wants to be a rich slave; he wants to be a poor slave-I mean poor and free"), Mrs. Robert Kennedy being accidentally belted by a Japanese bandleader, and some of the nation's best football players fumbling foolishly...
Uncle T's enchantment with electronic gadgetry is evident the minute you walk into his studio. His engineer keeps a tape of electronic sounds running throughout the show, and when T is speaking, the tape channel fades in and out. A dial on the table where T sits controls the reverb chamber. A foot pedal sends his voice, or whatever is playing, underwater for "waa-waa" effect...