Word: earthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes well, the unmanned laboratory of intricate instruments should reach the area of the moon Monday night, then back toward a vast, cigar-shaped orbit around the earth...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey: "The Hurtling Hubert is a missile of extremely long range. In a test firing last year, the Hurtling Hubert actually reached Soviet Russia, where its communication system kept running at top speed for eight consecutive hours. It is in constant television contact with the earth. Its fuel supply was developed largely in the mid-1930s, and some scientific circles feel a more modern source of thrust is needed...
This made nine satellites circling the earth. Eight of them are American: three Vanguards, three Explorers, and two Discoverers. They range in weight from a 3.25-lb. instrumented Vanguard to an empty 1,700-lb. second stage of a Discoverer. The other is Russia's massive space body. Sputnik III (2,134 Ibs.); the other two Sputniks have fallen back into the atmosphere and burned up. Of the U.S. satellites, the grapefruit-sized Vanguard I is expected to keep circling for 2,000 years, the basketball-sized Vanguard II for 200 years. Both Vanguard I and Explorer VI have...
...correct Nigeria's protein-deficient diet. A machine digesting four tons of peanuts per hour would cost only $700,000, and it would supply enough protein for a city of 250,000 people. "It is no longer inevitable," says Chayen, "that the majority of the population of this earth should suffer from gross and chronic malnutrition. There is abundant protein for all, growing around them. They now have the means with which to help themselves...
Playing with Golden Demon are History of the Cinema and Tara the Stonecutter, both above-average cartoons. "Tara," based on a Japanese legend about a man who desired to be the most powerful thing on earth, suffers from an "Ah, so" third person narrator, but is very well drawn...