Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Animals No More. Two years of intensive preparations and more than $2 billion (a large part of it for new roads, subways and housing to handle the mobs) have gone into Expo. "Why not?" asked Taizo Ishizaka, president of the Japan Expo Association. "Once in a blue moon, we Japanese must indulge in one colossal binge." Another Japanese businessman, commenting on the cost, predicted: "Nobody outside Japan is going to call us economic animals any longer. If we were, we wouldn't have spent so much for such a thing...
Seventy-seven countries and one colony (Hong Kong) have pavilions on the 815-acre Expo site. The U.S. exhibit, catering to the baseball-mad Japanese, features Babe Ruth's uniform, a lunar module and a genuine moon rock. The Russians are showing the two Soyuz rockets that docked in space in 1969, as well as a replica of the elegant 19th century room of Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, complete with his actual grand piano...
...environment and proving how one part invariably affects others. Even so, the final goal of accurately predicting the result of any specific action is still far in the future. As Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch said when he threw his support behind the program: "Comparatively speaking, the moon shot was easy...
...Underdog Moon. More gregarious spirits seized upon the blackout as an occasion for a Woodstock kind of togetherness. There was an "Eclipse-In" at Manhattan's Central Park and a "Sun-In" thrown by Washington's hip Aquarian Society to "share a common culture of music, drugs, love, liberation and the simple enjoyment of life...
...more sentimental souls, the eclipse provided another chance to applaud the victory of an underdog. Now bearing human footprints, the moon has assumed a new kinship with mankind. And once again, that tiny body whose feeble reflective light is daily obscured by the overpowering brilliance of sun had succeeded in blotting out, however temporarily, the dominant light source in man's special locus within the universe...