THAT IT'S A VAST, LONELY, FORBIDDING-TYPE EXISTENCE......IT CERTAINLY WOULD NOT BE A VERY INVITING PLACE TO LIVE OR WORK." LOVELL AGREED, BUT ADDED, "THE VAST LONELINESS UP HERE IS AWE-INSPIRING, AND IT MAKES YOU REALIZE JUST WHAT YOU HAVE BACK THERE ON EARTH." IN APOLLO 11, THE ASTRONAUTS LANDED ON THE MOON ON JULY 25, 1969. ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG CALLED OUT THE WORD EVERYONE WAS WAITING FOR......."HOUSTON," HE CALLED. "TRANQUILITY BASE HERE. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED." ALL OF AMERICA WAS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS. IT WAS A VERY EXCITING TIME; CHEERS, TEARS AND FRANTIC APPLAUSE WENT UP AROUND THE NATION. "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," BECAME THE WATCHWORD WHEN U.S. ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG SAID THIS AS HE PLACED HIS FOOT FIRMLY ON THE FINE-GRAINED SURFACE OF THE MOON. AFTER CENTURIES OF DREAMS AND PROPHECIES, THE MOMENT HAD COME. MAN BROKE HIS TERRESTRIAL SHACKLES AND SET FOOT ON ANOTHER WORLD. THE NEW VIEW COULD HELP MAN PLACE HIS PROBLEMS, AS WELL AS HIS WORLD, IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE. THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION THE MEDICAL INTRODUCTION OF THE "PILL" CHANGED THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SEXES DRAMATICALLY IN 1964. AMERICANS DISCOVERED THAT THE FREEDOM FROM FEAR OF UNWANTED PREGNANCY WENT HAND IN HAND WITH OTHER KINDS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM. IT BECAME AN ERA IN WHICH MORALS WERE HELD TO BE BOTH PRIVATE AND RELATIVE, IN WHICH PLEASURE WAS BEING CONSIDERED ALMOST LIKE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT RATHER THAN A PRIVILEGE, IN WHICH SELF-DENIAL BECAME INCREASINGLY SEEN AS FOOLISH RATHER THAN VIRTUOUS. THE "PILL" IS A TABLET THAT CONTAINS AS LITTLE AS ONE THIRTY-THOUSANDTH OF AN OUNCE OF CHEMICAL. IT USED TO COST 1 1/4 CENTS TO MANUFACTURE AND A MONTH'S SUPPLY SOLD FOR $2.00, RETAIL. YET, IN A MERE SIX YEARS, IT CHANGED AND LIBERATED THE SEX AND FAMILY LIFE OF A LARGE SEGMENT OF THE U.S. POPULATION. DID THE CONVENIENT CONTRACEPTIVE PROMOTE PROMISCUITY? ARE AMERICANS PAYING THE PRICE TODAY FOR THE DECLINE IN MORALS AND VALUES? THE ENVIRON...
