Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomers can hardly wait for the day when these first space scouts are launched. For oddly enough, they know less in many ways about the planets, the earth's neighbors, than they do about far-distant stars. The reason is that stars shine in their own light, revealing much about themselves to astronomers' spectroscopes. The solar system's planets are visible only in the reflected light of the sun. Their spectra carry little firm information, and the details that can be seen on their surfaces are clear enough to excite but too vague to satisfy human curiosity...
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...
Bread & Butter. Speaking for the large majority of those who willingly shelled out, Musicman Meredith Willson (full-page picture, no name) explained: "I shudder to think of the hole in show-business life if there were no Variety. I know how much money I'm making in Denver, what hotel my people are staying in, when they are coming in where, how the competition is in New Haven, the ratings of my songs. My bread and butter is all right there, and this is my way of saying 'Thanks...
...Radio City Music Hall orchestra while studying at Juilliard, later formed a professional music group called the Chamber Art Society. In 1947 Stravinsky offered to conduct one of his works for the group. "That's the mystery of my life," says Craft. "I still don't know why he did it." At Stravinsky's invitation, Craft returned with him to Los Angeles as a music secretary, gradually became Stravinsky's professional alter...
...Allies themselves are divided on Krupp. Both the U.S. and France have let the West German government know that they are not opposed to letting Krupp keep his property. Only the British have insisted on holding Krupp to his promise. Since there is little they can-or want to -do about it, the Allies may now decide to release Krupp formally from his pledge. Krupp is already believed to own 75% of Bochumer Verein's stock, obtained through the good offices of his friend, Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren...