We’ve seen some kind of birth here,” Eric Sevareid, the CBS commentator, declared right after Neil Armstrong took man’s first walk on the moon, in July, 1969. To Sevareid, who always looked and tried to sound like a clean-shaven Elijah, the fuzzy, black-and-white television transmissions showed the astronaut as a “clumsy creature, half-blind, maneuvering with great awkwardness at first, and slowly learning to use its legs, until, in a rather short time it’s running.” Cosmically, we were off to the races.
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