Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Apollo 13 astronauts were "men of iron-strange, plasticized, half-communicating Americans," Mailer added. When they placed a metal U.S. flag on the moon's surface, he read, "patriotism, corporations, and national taste were all occupying the same head...
Mailer had unkind words for "humorless radicals" both before and after reading excerpts from his forthcoming book on the Apollo 13 moon-landing to a crowd of 500 in Sanders Theatre...
...largest question raised by the moon-landing, Mailer said, "was whether God or the Devil was at the helm. When it happened, I felt that the world had gone forever out of the control of the people I know...
...last few years, it has suffered one major flaw as a political rallying point. In the age of televised history-when millions of clectronic witnesses have personally seen conventions, assassinations, riots, and marches-the trial remained a basically private affair. The TV cameras that made it to the moon could not enter Judge Julius Hoffman's District Court. And so the public was left to feed on the daily press reports, all of which seemed to begin. In its most tumuhuons day yet the Chicago trial...
Earlier last night Apollo Control lost contact with the spacecraft when the moonship looped around the moon on its way back to earth. Radio contact resumed about 8 p. m. when the spaceship emerged from behind the moon...