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Word: mooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...DuBois? Is Maggie Pollitt? Is Serafina Delle Rose? Is Tom Wingfield? Is Mitch in Streetcar"? Is Big Daddy, for that matter? If these people are deviates first and human beings second then I am not a homosexual sitting at a typewriter in Philadelphia; I am a dog on the moon baying at the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 20, 1970 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Cremation is not confined to the dead. There are families in which people burn each other to a crisp daily and dance with desolate glee in the ashes. Despite its title, which suggests arch avant-garde whimsy, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a lacerating account of just such a household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cave of Terrified Mutants | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

ONLY nine months have passed since man made his first lunar landing, and many Americans have already become rather blase about moon shots. But to the thousands of spectators in Florida and millions in front of TV sets around the world, last week's Apollo launch-televised from close up for the first time-had obviously lost none of its awesome drama. "Good luck, and head for the hills!" called Cape Kennedy launch control to the Apollo crew. Apollo 13 did just that. It lifted off into the hazy Florida skies in a cloud of flame and, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heading for the Hills | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...third-stage S-4B rocket burned an extra ten seconds to boost the spacecraft unerringly into earth orbit. Then, after 1½ revolutions of the earth, a five-minute blast from the S-4B sent the fifth U.S. manned lunar mission on a long glide toward the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heading for the Hills | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

NASA was faced with a painful choice. If Mattingly were allowed to go on the mission, he might well be disabled by the disease (which can blur vision and swell the joints in the hand), perhaps while alone in orbit around the moon. If the mission were delayed until the next practical launch date, May 9, the extra cost would be $800,000 and there might also be some deterioration of the Saturn systems. In contrast, there was the possibility of replacing Mattingly with his back-up crewman, John Swigert, who was found to have immunity against rubella. But Swigert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heading for the Hills | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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