Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk, their doctors had no hesitation about speaking out. After completing preliminary shipboard medical examinations, they declared that the trio appeared to be extremely fit-in better shape, in fact, than the returning Skylab 1 astronauts, who were in space only about half as long. The prolonged exposure to zero gravity did take its toll...
Solar Cycle. Other earthlings aboard Skylab did not fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely...
...South American summer circuit usually draws many of the top skiers in the world and this year five of the skiers were classified as "zero skiers." A zero skier must have won at least two World Cup competitions, a feat which has been accomplished by less than ten skiers currently in world amateur competition...
...Neill's The Iceman Cometh in Mobile, Ala.? In one of the most unusual and ambitious movie ventures in decades, the American Film Theater has packed up an unprecedented trunkful of talents -among them Directors John Frankenheimer, Tony Richardson and Peter Hall, Actors Alan Bates, Stacy Keach and Zero Mostel-and this fall will hit the road bringing classics of modern drama to audiences in more than 500 theaters across the U.S. and Canada-on film...
...their own cabin on Mosquito Lake. Older people who once took it for granted that they would move in with reluctant sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like a tidal wave," says Dartmouth Geographer Robert B. Simpson. "Our demand for land per capita is increasing even more rapidly than our population...