Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...censures the "military version of Manifest Destiny," the "victims of peace scares [stock-market investors]," the punitive assault on drug usage, calls for "an Onassis tax, a tax on tax expatriates, and not-likely-to-get-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-tax." He serves delicious remarks on the moon shot with "our three Astrobards reading Bible poetry to Sabbatarian earthlings," rips into the reptilian dowagers and Saharian financiers who run the orchestras. We hear of a recent concert tour-"a via dolorosa "-which took him (against his will?) to Miami, where "everyone looked like he was fried in butter...
...this sounds like fantasy, so did a trip to the moon not ten years...
...with Kissinger. Dean May had arrived at the hotel in time for a last-minute strategy session, so at about 1:15 they all strolled together across Lafayette Park and into the White House basement to "shock Henry into realizing he's living on the other side of the moon." Will Henry realize he's living on the other side of the moon? The Kissinger confrontation and others in Tuesday's CRIMSON...
...Italians christened it "Mao's moon." The British said its recording of The East Is Red sounded somewhat like the chimes of an ice-cream wagon. Though the "moon's" batteries were running down, the message that China's 380-Ib. satellite delivered as it orbited the earth last week was clear enough. Peking's space feat would inevitably affect the course of the SALT talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at Vienna, and ultimately it might also set off a nuclear-arms race among a number of smaller powers. In fact, the prospects...
...coming closer to the day when they might create superheavy elements in the range of 110 (which would resemble platinum) to 114 (similar to lead). According to theory, they should be so long-lived that traces of them may still exist in their natural state on earth and the moon (scientists are looking for them in the lunar rocks brought back by Apollo). If they are ever found or-more likely-produced in the laboratory, says Ghiorso, "it would revolutionize chemistry. It would be the most fantastic thing in my lifetime...