Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Oaxaca lies directly in the path of the narrow, 100-mile-wide shadow that will be cast by the moon as it moves directly between earth and sun. If the usual cloud-free weather prevails, the remote area will offer astronomers a ringside seat for the sky spectacular. As the moon's shadow sweeps northward, millions of Americans and Canadians may also be able to catch a glimpse of a total or nearly-total eclipse, although direct observation can be highly dangerous (see box). The path of totality extends across the Gulf of Mexico, cuts through Florida, Georgia...
...eclipse's path will cross Wallop's Island, Va., where NASA scientists will send up 33 probing rockets as the shadow approaches. In addition, several research planes will seek an above-the-weather look at the eclipse; a U.S. Air Force KC-135 will even race the moon's shadow in order to get a few precious extra moments of observation time...
...Puerto Rico's El San Juan Hotel this week. She has just been nominated for an Academy Award for her first starring role in The Sterile Cuckoo. She will soon be seen in the title role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, in which she has to be convincing as a facially scarred girl in love. And in the talk stages, a Liza Minnelli TV special for late spring...
...warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations of the last two world wars. From the 1916 tank evolved the bulldozing tractor. World War II was a veritable cornucopia: the first aerosol bomb, radar, the jet aircraft engine, and the ballistic missiles that, a scant generation later, took man to the moon. And of course that dubious bequest, thermonuclear energy leashed in the Bomb. That weapon redefined war. For the first time, man held in his hands a weapon that could destroy the earth and all living things upon it-a weapon so powerful that human reason would refuse to wield...
Only a few years ago, none of that work would have been seriously questioned. The aerospace industry grew to its present size in response to Washington's demands during the cold war and the race to the moon. Now, the companies and their laid-off employees are unhappily adjusting to a switch in national priorities that they could not have foreseen. The U.S. still needs an innovative and relatively large aerospace industry. Yet the overriding new concern with social needs and the environment makes it unlikely that the industry will regain the pre-eminence that it enjoyed as recently...