Word: marse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your recent review of The Last Caprice [Aug. 9], describing odd wills and bequests, did not mention the strange testament of Mme. Marc Guzman, who died in 1908, leaving 100,000 francs to the French Academy of Science as an award for the first person "to communicate with inhabitants...
Some time in 1966, if U.S. space exploration sticks to schedule, a strange device the size of a milk bottle will plop onto the dry crust of Mars, set itself up on three self-adjusting legs, and begin a search for life. The detector will not be looking for bug...
When the first Mariner capsule soft-lands on Mars, the multivator will be tossed out at the end of an electronic umbilical cord. After settling its tripod feet firmly on the Martian surface, a miniature vacuum cleaner will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's...
Phosphatase itself is not alive, but Lederberg reasons that if the enzyme shows up in the dust of Mars, its presence must mean that microscopic living organisms exist-or have recently existed-on the distant planet just as they do on earth. The actual identification of these creatures will have...
Coney Island's biggest addition for 1963 is Astroland, a $3,000,000 fun-and-games nexus devoted to space exploration. It has the Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet-passengers enter the rocket, fasten seat belts, then blast off with engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots...