Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer-dominated Capitol Hill. Says Kearns, who, at the request of Secretary of State Dulles, recently conducted four Air Force Symphony concerts in Iceland: "If I could put a Sputnik into the air, I would like to have it wired for sound and have it play 'Peace on earth, good will to men,' instead of 'beep, beep.' I mentioned this to President Eisenhower. My idea got across, because he did send such a message up with our last moon. Next time I hope it will play music." ¶ House Majority Leader John McCormack insisted on turning...
Trofim Lysenko is an egregiously indestructible plant breeder from the Ukrainian black-earth belt who long ago won world notoriety, scientific contempt and Stalinist favor with his attempt to rewrite nature to suit Marx. A weird cross between sinister charlatan and seedy fanatic. Lysenko used his political influence, based on Stalin's favor, to wreak ruthless vengeance on his critics, the scholars who had made genetics-until his rise-the pride of Russian science...
...bring him back alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...
...today after defeating the forces of Fidel Castro '47 throughout the whole of Cuba. "Man, it's not like I had anything against this Fidel cat, but man, this Cuba is an ugly country and I want to clean it up, sweep the streets, encompass the universe, ravish the earth." Scott broke the back of the Castro resistance at famous San Juan Hill...
Challenge & Response. Simplest and most basic motivation of the drive into space is man's enduring and insatiable drive to explore and know his environment. Space is a challenge simply because, like Mount Everest, it is there. Hundreds of millions of years ago, earth's life ventured from the shelter of the oceans, crept slowly and painfully out on land, into the hostile air and searing sun. Man is venturing forth again into a new element. From the bottom of the air ocean where he has lived so long, the emptiness overhead looks almost impossibly hostile. Its vacuum...