Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light rain sifted down on southeast Florida one night last week as the 62-ft. cabin cruiser Harpoon eased out of a remote cove near Miami and zigzagged through mangrove islands to the sea. Suddenly, a blinding spotlight blazed through the mist. The U.S. border patrol cutter Douglas C. Shute roared alongside and two agents leaped to the Harpoon's slippery deck yelling: "Keep her on course!" As a defiant helmsman slammed the Harpoon into a mangrove thicket, uniformed Cuban revolutionaries poured from the cabin. One tried to fire his submachine gun, failed only because the clip...
Castruccio's lunar power plant (which he calls an "electron farm") is nothing but a thin plastic sheet coated with cesium or some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light. On earth these electrons would get nowhere; they would be captured immediately by atmospheric atoms. On the airless moon the electrons could be collected by a wire mesh. Flowing out of the mesh, they would form a direct electric current...
According to Dr. Castruccio, a one-acre electron farm will produce 1,200 kilowatts, enough to run 20,000 60-watt light bulbs. The plant will weigh 1.7 Ibs. per kw. and cost (on earth) $3.50 per kw. Since the farm can have any desired acreage, Dr. Castruccio feels that power supply should not be a principal problem for a lunar colony...
...starts a powerful acoustic wave that can be detected at great distances as a slight variation of air pressure. A feeble one-kiloton explosion sends a detectable wave as much as 2,000 miles downwind, 300 miles upwind, or an average of 800 miles under conditions of light and varying winds. When exploded under the surface of the ocean, a one-kiloton explosion sends sound waves 6,000 miles through the water...
Harry Ashmore, the Arkansas editor who last year believed Little Rock could and should comply with the Supreme Court decision for school desegregation, saw the conflict in a different light last week. "There is no way, for the time being at least," wrote the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, "to obtain such compliance...