Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...elected with more than 90% of the black vote last fall-fully half of his overall total. Much of the rest of his support came from labor unions, attracted by the promises of economic progress held out by the liberal Massell. In New Orleans last April, Mayor Moon Landrieu was elected on a similar black-labor-liberal coalition, picking up fully 92% of the black vote in the Democratic primary and 99% in the general election...
Winding up his visit to Russia, Astronaut Neil Armstrong delighted Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin with gifts from America-a small Russian flag that was carried on Apollo 11 and some chips of moon rock mounted in Lucite. Later, touring the Kremlin Armory museum with Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy, he joked that there had been no fair exchange. Beregovoy indicated the museum's display of czarist crown jewels. "Pick one," he said. Armstrong pointed. "Fine," said the Russian. "That will cost you $300 million." Replied Armstrong: "I think I'll wait until they sell it at half price...
...think of accepting-not in such company-but he couldn't help laughing when he heard the proposition. His political rival, New York City Mayor John Lindsay, broke up a Manhattan luncheon for the Apollo 13 astronauts by suggesting that he and Rocky fly to the moon together. "The combined effect," said Lindsay, "ought to make millions of people very happy...
Although they have been lagging badly in the space race, the Russians have not lost their flair for the dramatic. Just as a major international space conference was winding up in Leningrad last week, and U.S. Moon Walker Neil Armstrong was inspecting the cosmonauts' Star City compound outside Moscow, the Soviets launched a two-man spaceship, Soyuz 9. into orbit around the earth. On board were Vostok 3 Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, 40-husband of the world's only spacewoman, Valentina Tereshkova-and Rookie Vitaly Sevastyanov, 35. They were the first Russians in space since last October...
...rock from the Ocean of Storms resembled an ordinary piece of granite, but it was, in fact, unlike any earthly specimen-or any of the other lunar material brought back by Apollo 12. It contained 20 times as much radioactive uranium, thorium and potassium as comparable amounts of other moon material and was the oldest lunar specimen yet obtained. Radioactive dating tests made by Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg indicated that the rock was formed 4.6 billion years ago-around the time that the moon and the planets arc believed to have been created. Scientists hope that further examination...