Word: gammas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. A strange beautiful flower of a girl grows out of the scorched earth of a viciously unhappy family...
...could designers anticipate all the other hazards that computers might encounter in distant space-a burst of gamma radiation, the impact of a tiny meteor, an unexpected power loss. Even mission control would be powerless in such a crisis. If trouble occurred near Neptune, for example, radioed data describing the problem would take four hours to reach the earth. By that time, the moment for a crucial maneuver might well have passed, and the entire mission could be jeopardized...
...Gamma rays kill all coliform bacteria in the water, which is then filtered and scrubbed clean of particles. The result is as clear, pure and tasteless as distilled water. Dr. David R. Woodbridge, a physicist and one of the method's inventors, says that the process can be used in medium-sized cities and would cost householders about $3.50 per month more than they are now paying for fresh water. If necessary, tasty additives could be introduced. Presumably, a dash of DDT and a cup of raw sewage would bring the clean water to present U.S. standards...
...sensitive young playwright who writes plays like Lemon Sky. When such a play comes from the heart, it can be lyrically powerful. Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is the classic example. A first-rate drama of this kind opened off-Broadway a few weeks ago, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and deservedly won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the best American play of the season...
Even in this emotionally scorched earth, the younger girl is like a plant reaching up tenaciously toward the sun of knowledge. She has a relish for science, and her sympathetic science teacher has encouraged her to conduct the experiment of growing marigold seeds that have been subjected to gamma rays. When she is asked to deliver a small speech on the subject in her high school auditorium, the cauldron of the mother's repressions, frustrations, aborted love and accumulated venom boils over...