Word: earths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council president. Westlake made a colorless "nice guy" campaign for better city leadership, was helped immeasurably...
...Think Big." Motorway madness became the big story of the week. "Drive M-1 for Murder," quipped sardonic Londoners. TV and radio announcers urgently warned drivers against parking on the pavement-or off it either, "until the earth settles...
Lunik's course and timing were chosen, the Russians said, so that on the far side it would come close to a line drawn between the moon and the sun. As it approached the line, an electronic signal from the earth started its automatic machinery-and all sorts of things began to happen. Lunik was spinning (for directional stability) with one of its ends pointing roughly toward the sun; the first thing the orienting mechanism did was to stop the spinning, probably by ejecting small spurts of gas through nozzles. Then optical viewing devices looking through ports...
Automatic Developer. On signal from the earth, both cameras began taking pictures on 35-mm. film that had been carefully protected from the fogging effect of cosmic rays. Exposures were automatically varied from frame to frame to make sure of some negatives with good contrast. As soon as the film was shot, it passed into a developing and fixing device that was specially designed to function properly under conditions of weightlessness. After being dried, the film went into a case to wait for transmission to earth. Some of this operation was automatic, but marks on the moving film, the Russians...
After all its film was exposed, an automatic mechanism set Lunik to spinning again, so that sunlight during its journey would not scorch one side while the other side froze and upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line...