Word: outer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last night's Crimson basketball win, Fordham's Tom Penders seemed like the typical young college coach--the frisonne hairstyle, mod haberdashery, and courtside histrionics. But beneath that outer tinsel is the real tinsel--the alluring glitter of big-time basketball. Penders, the consummate recruiter, wants to create a national power. While he'll have to bide his time with the lowly Rams, his past performances indicate his goal is not out of reach...
...outer world would not get an accurate report of what had happened for nearly two days. But one survivor, Stanley Clayton, 25, reported that there may have been more coercion and fear than loyal devotion when the final test came. Clayton was cooking black-eyed peas in the colony's kitchen when the call to assemble was sounded. He recalled: "A security guard came into the kitchen, pointed a pistol at everybody and told us all to go to the pavilion." Jones had already ordered that preparations for mass suicide be started. But one woman, Christine Miller, was protesting. Continued...
...reporter turning up at one of her lectures at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History noted that the speaker somehow managed to discuss museums, stones, stuffed birds, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon man, children, parents, grandparents, dinosaurs, whales, the possibility of life in outer space, education, the youth revolution of the 1960s, the oneness of the human species, pollution, evolution, growing up in New Guinea, relations between the sexes, communes and the fragmentation of communities...
...spent two months at IRCAM working with scientists on Arcus. Says he: "You are a different composer after you have absorbed all this." Some observers think that IRCAM may sponsor too much adventure. Says Composer Otto Luening of the Columbia" Princeton Electronic Music Center: "It is fine to explore outer space in sound. But I ask, what will you bring back...
...Spacelab is a special experimental station designed to allow scientists to collect data in the weightless, pressureless atmosphere of outer space using their own equipment...