Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...Elysée Palace to a dinner with Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. Borman proved himself a deft diplomat. In England he pointed out that Apollo's fuel cell was based on an invention by a Cambridge scientist. In Paris he praised French Science Fiction Author Jules Verne in a personal letter to his grandson, Jean-Jules Verne. After an audience with President Charles de Gaulle, he reported, with just the right touch of humility: "I was awed. I realized I was in the presence of a great...
...Columbia University Physicist Gerald Feinberg, the monthly magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction is as compelling as any learned scientific journal...
...Stranger Than Science" shows what science fiction once predicted and how much of it came true...
This Catch-68 scenario might have been hilarious as fiction, but it did not amuse the court's presiding admirals. As Rear Admiral Marshall White told Johnson: "You had a contingency plan to use forces that did not exist." His face flushing, Johnson admitted that this was so. He noted, however, that even if he had had the ships and planes at his disposal, he could not have dispatched them until a request had filtered up through the Air Force and Navy chains of command to the Pentagon and, presumably, the White House...