Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules o'er earth...
...world land speed record (632 m.p.h.), found himself in a jam when the plane's engine flamed out. No slouch in an emergency, Stapp ejected himself at "somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 feet," back-somersaulted four times, then opened his chute to float to earth. His only memorable injury: a chipped ankle bone. His pilot, Captain Harry B. Davis, a Negro fighter-pilot veteran of the Korean war, was not so lucky, died after his parachute failed to bloom properly...
...passel of Continental newspapers persisted in spreading rumors that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev must watch his intake or be subject to a precipitate outgo from this earth. U.S. "Astrologian" Carroll Righter, syndicated globally in some 250 U.S. newspapers, promptly confirmed it all by warning that Khrushchev's stars indicate a need for great vigilance over "his stomach and digestive tract...
...grasshopper's brain. But today he can tip back his head and look at the sky. Beyond its outermost blue are the world-encompassing belts of fierce radiation that bear his name. No human name has ever been given to a more majestic feature of the planet Earth...
Obviously, concluded Van Allen, "there was something wild and woolly going on." The aurora borealis is most intense at latitudes north of Newfoundland. It was believed to be caused by charged particles of some sort raining down from space and concentrated around the Magnetic North Pole by the earth's magnetic field. Though Van Allen could not guess it then, the "cosmic rays" detected by his Rockoons were directly related to the northern lights, and were really a fringe of the worldwide radiation belt that he was to discover five years later...