Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scott. Looks all right. Let's try. . . Launch light on . . . O.K., here we go with the countdown . . . Three...
...recalling that the Laos government itself 16 months ago refused to tolerate the Control Commission's interference any longer, rejected the Soviet proposal, recommended instead "the cessation of Communist intervention and subversion" in Laos. Backing up its words with deeds, the U.S. continued to pour into Vientiane light military equipment and civilian instructors, including hastily demobilized Army Signal Corps men; by week's end the U.S. population of Laos (about 600) was double what it had been two months...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed a new film star: Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, whose craft in the ring has kept him on top of the fight game for years, whose craft on a raft got him successfully through a screen test for the role of Jim, the runaway slave, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
...latest gift of famed, splenetic British Publisher Beaverbrook (Daily Express, Evening Standard) to his boyhood province is an expertly lighted, $1,000,000 museum of glazed bricks, white limestone and greyish-white marble. The building is divided into a recessed showroom where the picture-windowed north wall frames the placid river flowing below, a long and large gallery at either end, and a basement that converts easily from exhibition halls into lecture rooms. To cut the glare from artificial lights, all walls are faced with a light beige fabric; grey and brown terrazzo floors are offset by stairways trimmed...
...Crater. The Russians themselves do not claim to know precisely where the Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually...