Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years will go automatically to the nation that is successful in reaching the moon and making it a steppingstone to further space exploration. And the nation that first lands men and instruments on the moon will be the one whose political and economic outlook becomes the dominant force on earth, whether it tells its story through a horde of propagandists or lets its accomplishments speak for themselves...
...executioner, an ancient custom intended to ensure a speedy death for a condemned man. The noose was slipped about his neck, and the hangman and his assistants hauled smartly on the rope. Mahmud shot six feet off the ground-then the rope broke, and he fell heavily to earth...
...duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
Many astronomers argue that only colossal pride prevents men on Earth from concluding that there are other people on other planets. In the Milky Way alone, there are probably billions of planets revolving around stars similar to the sun. A conservative guess is that 100,000 of the planets support some form of life. It is an easy step from there to conclude that they support rational creatures and a civilization...
...direct charge of the project is Harvard-trained Astronomer Frank Drake, 29. His assumption is that if other civilizations do exist, some must be more advanced than the one on Earth. "We would expect," says Drake, "to find scattered throughout our galaxy, planets from which radio transmissions more powerful than ours are radiated...