Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many astronauts say that the most spectacular sight they have seen in space is their own planet, a fertile blue ball glowing in a black void. Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart has a somewhat different view. In an interview in Co-Evolution Quarterly, a magazine devoted to ecology, Schweickart says, among other things, that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions...
Says Mel Mendelson, owner of a meat-packing plant, who has been observing the scene for a quarter of a century: "Miami Beach reminds you of a New York subway." From a more scientific viewpoint, Frank Borman, the former astronaut who is now chairman of Eastern Air Lines, concluded from his company's research that "the Beach is dying as a tourist attraction." Eastern's figures reveal that as recently as 1971, more than four out of ten visitors arriving in Florida headed for the Miami area. Last year the figure was fewer than three out often...
...psychiatrists several months to rebuild the monomaniacal old man's psyche, and Santa inevitably spent the rest of the year following his recovery doing a slow build-up to that December night when he would once again rush his reindeer through the skies like some off-course Finnish astronaut on methedrine...
...narrative into relief, but any movie that features as original a piece of technology as HAL the computer has a lot going for it in the first place, so make those trips to the concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time warp that makes the color patterns of a kaleidoscope pale by comparison. One warning: don't wast too much time trying to figure out the significance of the monolith and some of the more obscure scenes in 2001; you can save yourself the trouble by reading screenwriter...
...stage "the biggest rip-off in history" (TIME, Oct. 24). Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as an indication that Carter may after all be an antibusiness Georgia populist rather than the fiscal conservative he has often seemed. Says Frank Borman, the former astronaut who now heads Eastern Air Lines: "He is casting suspicion on business in general, and that is unfortunate. He doesn't have a very good idea of what 90% of the businessmen in this country are like." Adds Edson Spencer, president of Honeywell Inc., the computer maker...