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ule piot Edwin Aldrin, front, and spacecraft com
mander Ne.l Armstrong practice their lunar activi
ties at Houston 'sandbox'. Ti~e astronauts are wear
Astronauts Wear
SPACE CENTER. Houston (AP) -
Saying alive on the moon requires the
world's most expensive wardrobe.
The SfrM.OOO sui's donned by Apollo 11
asUonauiS Neil Armstrong and Co!.
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. to protect them on
the lunar surface are really an attempt
to brine their earth atmosphere with
them
On the moon, there is no oxygen,
water or shade. Nor is there an
atmosphere to shield the sun's radiation
or burn up meteorites streaking toward
the lunar sui face.
And temperatures—in the middle of
the lunat day—range from 250 degrees
above zero in the sun to 250 degrees
Our Old Problems Remain
Despite the Hope of Apollo
">lnrf 1 saw a new heaven and a
new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed awuy."
— 1 Revelations XXI
The great achievement of the men
on the moon is not only that they made
history, but that they expanded man's
vision of what history might be. One
moon landing doesn't make a new
Heaven and a new Earth, but it has
dramatized the possibilities of doing so.
The leaders of men have in recent
years been in a state of profound
depression over their inability to make
more progress with the social,
economic and political problems of the
world. Even in the United States, which
has gloried in its capacity to do the
impossible, men had begun to doubt
their capacity to control events.
What the mcon landing has done is
to revive hope, but the old Heaven and
the old Earth have not passed away.
The stubborn facts of the human family
remain the same. The population of the
world increased by 400 million in the
decade of the sixties. It will grow, on
the best estimates available, by about
500 million, outside of China, in the
seventies. According to the United
Nations, more than half of the people
now living on Earth are malnourished
and therefore vulnerable to disease; 500
million actually live in a state of
constant hunger and 3 million actually
die of starvation every year.
Meanwhile, the population of the Earth
increases by 200,000 every day, mainly
in the underdeveloped countries, where
40 per cent or more of the people are 15
years of age and under.
Three wars were being fought on
Earth when the three astronauts landed
on the moon—in Vietnam, the Middle
East, and Nigeria. Rebellion and
insurrection were common elsewhere.
China, Germany, Vietnam and Korea
were divided between hostile political
factions, and there were boundary
disputes between the Soviet Union and
China, East and West Germany, Italy
and Austria, Israel and the Arab states,
India and Pakistan, India and China,
Thailand and Malaysia, Thailand and
Cambodia, Cambodia and South
Vietnam, and Mexico and Guatemala.
Of these danger spots, perhaps the
most ominous is the conflict between
the two Communist giants, the Soviet
Union and China. Though the Middle
East could get out of control, it was
clearly in the interest of the United
States and the Soviet Union to prevent
it from doii)g so. The Sino-Soviet
dispute, however, is deep anrf bitter and
ing their spacesuits (see story below) and breathing
oxygen. Pressurization and breathing control are
provided by the packs worn on their backs. In the
background is a model of their lunar module.
' r'a'v »?• o in shrdov-'s Crly a. few yards
To survive, an eai'hman must carry
'rs own »:nv atmosphere —oxygen, air
c",rdi' ; o" ; nj. sun visors and a meteorite
•bield.
The aslronauts' spacesuits are really
H'loons inflated with oxygen.
A plastic bifcble helmet attaches to
♦he neck of the suit with a metal ring.
Two visors on the helmet filter sunlight
rrd shield meteorites.
Gloves designed for maximum
'iiexibifiijy jjlsb attach with jjjetal
r* -*o*yg«l « suiHs from ai »
elaborate back pack.
could develop into a major conflict in
which nuclear weapons would be used
and threatened through atomic fall-out
the existence of human life far beyond
the area of the fighting.
The nations of the Earth were
spending over SIBO billion a year on
military arms, a 50 per cent increase
since 1962, and an arms race of
apocalyptic proportions was in progress
between the United States and the
Soviet Union, each of whom had enough
atomic weapons to threaten the very
existence of human life.
A very large proporton of the human
race was thus confronted by the
intolerable paradox of great deprivation
in the midst of plenty, existing between
the two abysses of imposed political
order in the totalitarian states and
chaotic disorder in many of the 56 new
countries that have come into existence
since 1950. It would perhaps not be too
much to say that at this time there was
a kind of class war developing in the
world between the rich and poor within
many countries and also between the
very rich industrial nations of the
northern climes and the very poor
agricultural countries of the southern
climes
On the week of the moon flight. U
Thant, the secretary general of the UN,
issued a report, which was scarcely
noticed in the excitement.
"I continue to be struck," he said,
"bv the magnitude of the stake and the
relatively limited sacrifice, in financial
terms, which would be Deeded to
improve (the life) of the developing
countries; only a slight reduction in
expenditures on armaments would
suffice to make available the external
resources required for solving at least
some of the gravest economic and
social problems of today's world.
"On one or two occasions in the past,
I have referred to the danger of the
rich countries sinking into a kind of
prosperous provincialism. But another
danger should not be overlooked, that of
sinking into a morass of poverty and
despair. ..."
Nevertheless, by the end of the
sixties, which were supposed to be "the
development decade" among the
nations of the world, the large rich
nations were actually contributing a
smaller proportion of their annual
wealth to help the poor nations than
they were at the beginning of the
sixties. And as the seventies
approached, there was increasing
evidence of racial tension in (he world
and a kind of rising revolt among the
educated young against the values of
their elders.
Even in the relation.* between
The pack, tailed the portable life
support system or PLSS also provides
electrical power for ra d i o
communications and air conditions the
suic.
Together, suit and pack weigh a
staggering 190 pounds on earth but only
33 1/3 pounds in the moon's one-sixth
gravity.
The astronauts' underwear has a
system of pipes next to the body
through which water circulates. The
"Watef traffSTefs'heat from the body to a
vtariflortWi the bSc* pack where it is
released into space.
Moscow and Washington, there were
some signs of progress. The Brezhnev
regime has become increasingly
repressive at home in the last year or
fo, and frightened of the rise of
freedom in the Communist states of
Eastern Europe, but it is preoccupied
with the Chinese problem and therefore
does not want too much trouble ip the
West.
Accordingly, it is at least willing to
talk about bringing the arms race
under control and working to avoid the
spread of nuclear weapons. Moscow is
still the arsenal of Communism and
continues to arm the Arab states, but
all indications are that it will cooperate
with the United States at least to the
extent of avoiding direct military
involvement with the United States in
the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The trend in Vietnam was clearly
toward peace at the end of July. The
United States had started withdrawing
its troops from the battlefield, and
while this policy of detachment
promised to be long and painful for the
American people, the outlook was for
winding up a war which has divided the
United States, and limited its capacity
to deal with its internal problems.
Everywhere in the United States
there was fierce debate and analysis of
the nation's policies and priorities.
Within the churches, the universities,
and the government itself, old
assumptions were being challenged and
there was widespread anxiety that this
was going to lead to division,
disruption, and maybe even to a
separation of the races into two hostile
camps.
With the end of the Vietnam war,
however the chances for an easing of
the tensions seemed fairly good.
Between revolution and resignation, the
trend of the moderate and rising middle
class was toward reconstruction and
peace. In fact, the major tendencies of
policy within most of the advanced
countries of the West were away from
great adventures abroad and toward
concentration on social and economic
policies at home.
The moon landing undoubtedly
dramatized the rapidity of change in
the world and may therefore encourage
new approaches, new attitudes, and
new policies toward contemporary
problems. In a way, this great
achievement focused the mind of the
entire race on a single event and said to
the world what Lincoln said to the
American people in 1862.
"As our case Is new, we must think
anew and act anew. We must
disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall
save our country."
Bait Gov. Attend
Opening Party of
Vacation Center
BALTIMORE Governor
Marvin Mandel «u among the
gaaats of honor at a gala pre
openlng partv for the new Bal
timore Welcome Aboard Vaca
tion Center--an all black-back
ed travel agency that will ap
peal to both the black and
white community of Baltimore
and will open July 14 at 7 W
Saratoga St. at 2 Charles Cen
ter.
Hie pre-opening party was
held July 11 from 8 to 11 p.m.
in the main auditorium of the
Baltimore Civic Center on
Howard and Baltimore Streets.
President of the 18-member
corporation which purchased
the new Baltimore Welcome
Aboard franchise William W
Garter Jr. of Baltimore, na
tionally and internationally
known financial and insurance
consultant.
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CASTLE KEEP, one of his
prized works. Freeman, who
was on location for the film
ing in Yugoslavia, pointed out
to the sculptor the statue's re
markable resemblance to Burt
Lancaster .star of CASTLE
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CASTLE KEEP is th« story
of an American infantry squad's
last stand against enemy coun
terattack during World War It
Freeman, one of the leading
young actors on stage, screen,
and TV today, plays the role
of an intellectual soldier who
aspires to be a writer.
Thoth was the Egyptian god
of wisdom, learning and ma
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