Word: earth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better displayed than at the President's news conference. Visibly buoyed by the capital's warming weather, he opened the session with a reference to haunting lines of the Song of Solomon: "The winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.'' Ike looked well and obviously felt well: for the next 30 minutes he staged a performance that turned out to be his best conference since his stroke...
Spring pounded, too, at Southern California, already beset and embarrassed by its own wettest winter in six years. Recurrent slides of rain-soaked earth dumped 500,000 tons of rubble on to U.S. Highway loiA, west of Los Angeles, killed the district highway superintendent, rolled over and buried dozens of trucks, left two blocks of fashionable Pacific Palisades homes perilously close to the edge. The Mojave Desert's Mojave River, known as "UpsideDown River" because all but a trickle of its flow is underground, rose to near-flood dimensions near Barstow...
...Doubleday's ambitious Mainstream of Modern World History series. He is making notes for an autobiographical book on the people and events he has covered, and is pondering a biography of his longtime friend Sinclair Lewis. Next year he plans to go Inside Australia. It is virtually the earth's last unguntherized land mass. By the time the book comes out, explorers of outer space may have given him new worlds to conquer. Frets Gunther: "What disturbs and upsets me is that there is not time or freedom or energy enough to do all the things I would...
...picked up easily with low-power moonwatch telescopes. Its great virtue would be its short life. Even on a comparatively high orbit, the tenuous bubble of nothing would be slowed by faint traces of air on the threshold of space. Following a circular course 300 miles above the earth, it would live for only about ten days, and its rapid changes of speed and altitude would measure air density much more accurately than the slow responses of heavier satellites...
...shot away from the earth at escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.), a cheap 8.7-lb. corner reflector can be followed far into space. It can be watched by radar, says the NACA, as it circles the moon and heads back to earth. Its behavior will check the calculations of astronavigators and explore the spaceways for vehicles of the future, carrying instruments...