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1.8 BILLION MASTINIS
Funds Spent on Apollo 17 Would Do a Lot on Earth
By SAM HOPKINS
The flight of Apollo 17 to the moon will cost some $450 million, which would be enough money to pay for any of the following:
-- 15,000 homes costing $30,000 each.
-- 25,000 new school classrooms with all facilities.
-- 45,000 Cadillac Eldorado cars, fully equipped.
-- 4.5 million days of hospital care, at $100 a day.
-- Two more of Atlanta's Peachtree Centers.
-- Twenty-five Atlanta Stadiums.
-- Enough finances to hire 57,692 more teachers in Georgia at an average salary of $7,800 a year.
-- The creation of 10 reservoirs the size of Lake Lanier.
-- Enough Atlanta Falcon season tickets to last 750,000 years, with a pair of Super Bowl ducats thrown in for good measure in the final year.
-- The research budget of the American Cancer Society for nearly 20 years.
-- Sufficient funds to subscribe to The Atlanta Constitution and Sunday paper for 9,740,259 years.
-- Study state governmental reorganization in Georgia 3,600 more times.
-- Provide enough bathtub milk baths, as Jacqueline Onassis prefers, for every day in the year for 24,080 years.
-- Pay the four-year medical school tuitions to train 39,130 doctors.
-- Run the Atlanta public school system for nearly five years.
-- Construct nine hotels the size of the 70-story hotel planned for the old Henry Grady hotel site on Peachtree Street.
-- Pay the matriculation fee for three quarters at Georgia Tech for more than one million non-boarding Georgia students.
-- Pay the tab for 1.8 billion martinis, or bloody marys, during lunch at an Underground Atlanta restaurant that has a special noon price of 25 cents a drink. Looking at it a different way, the money spent on the Apollo 17 would pay for three of these luncheon martinis a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 2,307,690 years.
Anyone incurring this last expense might conclude he'd been better off going to the moon himself rather than staying so high on Earth.
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1.8 BILLION MASTINIS
Funds Spent on Apollo 17 Would Do a Lot on Earth
By SAM HOPKINS
The flight of Apollo 17 to the moon will cost some $450 million, which would be enough money to pay for any of the following:
-- 15,000 homes costing $30,000 each.
-- 25,000 new school classrooms with all facilities.
-- 45,000 Cadillac Eldorado cars, fully equipped.
-- 4.5 million days of hospital care, at $100 a day.
-- Two more of Atlanta's Peachtree Centers.
-- Twenty-five Atlanta Stadiums.
-- Enough finances to hire 57,692 more teachers in Georgia at an average salary of $7,800 a year.
-- The creation of 10 reservoirs the size of Lake Lanier.
-- Enough Atlanta Falcon season tickets to last 750,000 years, with a pair of Super Bowl ducats thrown in for good measure in the final year.
-- The research budget of the American Cancer Society for nearly 20 years.
-- Sufficient funds to subscribe to The Atlanta Constitution and Sunday paper for 9,740,259 years.
-- Study state governmental reorganization in Georgia 3,600 more times.
-- Provide enough bathtub milk baths, as Jacqueline Onassis prefers, for every day in the year for 24,080 years.
-- Pay the four-year medical school tuitions to train 39,130 doctors.
-- Run the Atlanta public school system for nearly five years.
-- Construct nine hotels the size of the 70-story hotel planned for the old Henry Grady hotel site on Peachtree Street.
-- Pay the matriculation fee for three quarters at Georgia Tech for more than one million non-boarding Georgia students.
-- Pay the tab for 1.8 billion martinis, or bloody marys, during lunch at an Underground Atlanta restaurant that has a special noon price of 25 cents a drink. Looking at it a different way, the money spent on the Apollo 17 would pay for three of these luncheon martinis a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 2,307,690 years.
Anyone incurring this last expense might conclude he'd been better off going to the moon himself rather than staying so high on Earth.