Word: earth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that was launched on March 17 has become a semi-permanent member of the solar system. Dr. John P. Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, announced last week that Vanguard I is on a "very stable orbit," rising as high as 2,500 miles and never approaching closer to the earth than 404 miles...
...trace of air that exists at this altitude has almost no drag, so Dr. Hagen thinks that the little satellite "will probably circle the earth over the heads of your grandchildren, and even their grandchildren," for as many as 200 years. Its two radio transmitters are still working fine, and since they get their power from solar batteries, they will broadcast indefinitely until some disaster, e.g., meteor impacts, shuts them down...
...drama and speech major at Ohio's Miami University, Al Hodge, 45, is a husky (6 ft. 2 in., 195 lbs.) airwave veteran who makes no claims to being an earth-shaking actor. He is a competent performer, a family man with two teenagers to send through college, a Long Island Sunday-school teacher and a prisoner of fate, zealously determined "to get out of that damned Video suit." As a last hope, he has resorted to disguise. He has landed a role in a forthcoming TV pilot film in which he will clap on a talcumed...
...work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...
...outside world of other mortals. Then one day one of their number perceived, in an apparition of the first Mr. Halloran, that the end of the outside world was not far off. Humanity, as an experiment, had failed, and the gods who created it had decided that all on earth save the twelve denizens of the Halloran mansion should perish in a general cataclysm...