Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stiff as he attended the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, chatted with South Korean Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, and carried out such ceremonial chores as laying wreaths, visiting an experimental rice farm, and dispensing the latest U.S. diplomatic lagniappe to friendly heads of state: tiny pieces of moon rock...
...guest book at the presidential palace. Judy's shyness was offset by the easygoing enthusiasm of Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, who accompanied the Agnews on the first week of their tour. With an arm around Judy Agnew, Cernan told Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos: "We feel the moon belongs to everyone." "Ah," beamed Mrs. Marcos, "as in the American song...
...Their car windows were plastered with American-flag decals, their ideological totems. In the bumper-sticker dialogue of the freeways, they answered MAKE LOVE NOT WAR with HONOR AMERICA or SPIRO IS MY HERO. They sent Richard Nixon to the White House and two teams of astronauts to the moon. They were both exalted and afraid. The mysteries of space were nothing, after all, compared with the menacing confusions of their own society...
...explorers gave back to Middle America a victory of its own values. It was little noted, except in Middle America where such things still matter, that among Neil Armstrong's extraterrestrial baggage was a special badge of his college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He used it symbolically to establish Moon Alpha Chapter...
...other leaders on his itinerary-with five milligrams of lunar dust encased in a Lucite block. The gifts are in fulfillment of a promise made by the President last summer when he visited some of the countries on Agnew's tour in the afterglow of the first moon landing...