Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time now I expect to hear an earth-bound mother talking to her space-bound daughter thusly: "But dear, you simply cannot do it. You just cannot marry out of your planet...
...DuBridge's logical, down-to-earth views in your March 31 Science section will, I hope, enable Sputnik-frenzied Americans to return safely to reality. The several billions required to finance a wasteful moon voyage could be expended more profitably for cancer research...
...church's Christian character: "Wherefore unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only Wise God, we dedicate this Church, in the service of Christ...." Bishop William Lawrence '71 added in his address, "This Chapel stands in the name of Him whose birth was heralded by the words, 'Peace on earth, good will towards men.'" The church was modeled after King's Chapel in Boston, and though it contains no altar, there is a Christian cross moulded into the woodwork of the choir screen...
Died. Javier Pereira, longtime (according to him: since 1789) aboriginal resident of Colombia, generally considered the oldest man on earth; in Monteria, Colombia. Physicians at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he was taken for examination in 1956, said that the little (4 ft. 4 in., 75 Ibs.) cigar-smoking Indian might "possibly [have been] more than 150 years old." During his only trip away from home, Pereira made passes at an airline stewardess, socked reporters and others who annoyed him. After the trip, the government of Colombia issued a Pereira postage stamp with the motto...
Russia's rocket Satellite Sputnik II has apparently left its orbit and plunged to earth "blowing up in the sky," according to John White, Director of Public Information at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute...