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...aboard a U.S. bomber as it made a Christmas Eve visit to the Japanese troops in China. Afterward he cabled the following dispatch: We crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear sharp shadows...
...didn't blacken, nor the moon turn red, but the world did come to an end, just as their prophet had promised. The End drove up in a tank, spitting gas, fulfilling prophecies. And if anyone wants to harm them, says the Book of Revelation, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes...
...Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty and war. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality." --Jan. 6, 1967, from Man of the Year profile of the "25 and Under" generation...
Water, water everywhere. Water on the moon, water on Europa. Twenty years and a few big drills, and the cold grey moon will be dotted with lake houses and tourist traps, kind of a Catskills for the new millenium. With the International Space Station grounded by delays and budget overruns, we'll certainly need a place to live...
...moment in time. And if you can't rewind yourself a bit to watch them, at least give them credit for inventing "Seinfeld." But CP, properly incensed when his copy of "Go to Mars" wasn't rewound, warns you now: Be kind, or it's Bang, Zoom -- To the moon! Happy viewing...