Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said it would be a good thing for the U.S. to understand the U.S.S.R.'s determination, and that Americans would welcome the competition. "We are not threatening the U.S. with just competition," he said. "We consider that the task should be for all the people of the earth to achieve the American level of living and go even beyond that, and we are sure the whole earth has enough resources for this to take place...
What would happen, asks Lewis, if space travelers from earth discover an unfallen race? "At first, to be sure, they'd have a grand time jeering at, duping and exploiting its innocence; but I doubt if our half-animal cunning would long be a match for godlike wisdom, selfless valor and perfect unanimity." Still, "against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object . . . of intolerable guilt." Earth missionaries might try to force...
...some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen to a person"; "Beneath that smiling mask stands the soul of a beast." For this pastiche Composer Moore (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Giants in the Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover and croons a melting lullaby ("Sleep, my love") that leaves the audience wondering whether composer and librettist have swallowed...
...Navy's test satellite, Vanguard I, may be small, but it is high and wondrously sophisticated, and it will probably stay in space many years longer than any of its earlier rivals. Its elliptical orbit varies between 404 miles and 2,466 miles above the earth. When it is ending its climb toward the high point (apogee), the satellite is moving slowest: only 12,000 m.p.h. Then it swoops down to the low point (perigee) and increases its speed to 18,400 m.p.h. It makes a full trip around the ellipse, 34,100 miles, in 134 minutes...
...enough to tangle with serious air resistance, it should stay in space for a very long time, certainly years. Instead of spiraling down slowly, like the Sputniks and Explorer I, it will stay on an almost stable orbit that will be only slightly disturbed by irregularities of the earth's gravitation...