Word: taxicab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward the lunar surface last week, Charles ("Pete") Conrad's words conveyed the real excitement and significance of the second moon-landing mission: the newfound precision that enables the U.S. to pick a destination on the moon's rugged surface and reach it as reliably as a taxicab finds a street address in Manhattan. Directly ahead of Intrepid lay the five craters that form the familiar pattern of "Snowman." Guided unerringly by the spacecraft computer. Astronauts Conrad and Alan Bean headed straight toward the target picked months earlier in Houston: Surveyor Crater, which forms Snowman's torso...
...musical excellence in his productions. The years that followed were a time of great names (Enrico Caruso, Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini) and spectacular gestures. Many Viennese still remember the flamboyant tenor Jan Kiepura, who after performances serenaded his fans from the roof of a taxicab outside the stage door...
...than a taxicab...
Sylvester Motley, 39, spent eight years in the Missouri State Penitentiary for bank robbery. He has been out 61 years, and until recently the most he was able to earn for his wife and two sons was $83 for a 60-hour work week as a taxicab company supervisor. Today he earns $4.20 an hour as a worker for St. Louis Millstone Construction Inc., averaging $160 a week. David Mapson, 36, spent 15 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for armed robbery, and could not hold a regular job. Now, at Cleveland's Ford foundry, he earns $3.50 an hour...
...York itself, a city that he feels is "like a living sculpture." To capture his first impressions he has nearly completed a "celebration to New York, a whoop-it-up scene" that shows a model consisting entirely of legs, breasts and lips emerging from an immense, sculptured yellow taxicab. He has spotted yellow as New York's special color. "It is an American yellow," he says, "the color of optimism. It's in the taxis, in the mustard, in the Kodak boxes and Con Edison construction tents, in the sanitation trucks." It is a joyful color, which reminds...