Word: earthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time plays tricks in primitive Laos, where communications are so poor that reports from the provinces are often as deceptive as stars that are burned out and dead by the time their light finally reaches the earth. Fact was that 29 hours before Phoumi spoke an estimated 4,000 fresh Communist troops, including North Vietnamese regulars, had come sweeping out of Viet Nam across the Nam Ma river into Samneua province. With their attack the situation in Laos changed from merely ugly to critical...
Working a long engagement as "vice president in charge of fun" at Santa Monica's Pacific Ocean Park, sad-eyed Clown Emmett Kelly took a sad-eyed view of his profession. When they were still the greatest shows on earth, he moaned, big-time U.S. circuses had billets for something like 1,000 clowns, but the survivor, Ringling Bros., now uses only about 35. "The kids don't see any future in clowning," said Kelly, but he had a fourth ring up his tattered sleeve. "There is a new field that offers possibilities. That's the shopping...
...most striking vessel was Russia's new Mikhail Lomonosov, painted resplendent white with the earth encircled by a satellite gleaming proudly on her bow. Much bigger (5,960 tons) than most Western research ships, she carries a complement of 131, of whom 71 are scientists. She can stay at sea for four months instead of the five weeks that is average for U.S. vessels. Her equipment is lavish, e.g., six deep-sea winches instead of the customary single one. U.S. experts who looked her over agreed that she could do almost any kind of oceanographic work, and the Russians...
...ports for lack of money to buy supplies. Lament Men Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, both members of an oceanographic subspecies whose real interest is the bottom, told how the Vema's probing-on-a-shoestring may have solved the ancient mystery of how the earth got its oceans and its solid land...
First Showing. In Los Angeles, House Painter Edward L. Rice, being sued for divorce, was ordered by Superior Court to stop driving around his neighborhood with a sign on his car: "My wife is the meanest woman on earth...