Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Shortly before Apollo 11 was launched in July 1969, Russian scientists sent an unmanned spaceship to the moon. Its probable mission was to land on the lunar surface, scoop up some soil and beat the Americans back to earth with the first samples of moon material. Luna 15 never achieved that ambitious goal. Several hours after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first mortals to step onto the moon, the Soviet spaceship dropped out of lunar orbit, apparently crashed and was never heard from again...
...regard us over a glass rim while his eyes squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler's hot line drives into quick double-plays. This night, however, Mailer was less the athlete. He took a fighter's stance, to be sure, his left (or non-drinking) hand shooting out sharp jabs, a shoulder...
...everything the reader believes; for we know that, if we but wait long enough, he will write another book in which he will ardently defend exactly the opposite point of view. It is a measure of the man's incredible philosophical wishy-washiness that one of his novels, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is one of the guiding tracts of the YAF, while Stranger In A Strange Land (his greatest, I might add) has helped inspire thousands of acid-freaks, beginning with Ken Kesey...
...Dick Tracy, Cartoonist Chester Gould often anticipates events and inventions long before they become reality. Along with Diet Smith, Tracy beat the astronauts to the moon by seven years. The intrepid detective talked into a two-way wristwatch-radio before the transistorized version was invented. Now Tracy has introduced the "humane" pistol. It fires a cartridge that on impact spurts a slippery, tranquilizing liquid that upsets the footing of a fleeing suspect and immobilizes him for half a minute-just enough time to slip on the handcuffs...
That it is easier to send a man to the moon than to clean up a slum...