Word: martian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
Chain Reaction. In Bari, Italy, a passing transport plane accidentally dropped a mile of steel links on Giuseppe Patrono's olive orchard, started rumors of a Martian invasion...
...million miles away, will take only slightly more fuel than a near approach to the moon. In each case most of the fuel is expended while breaking away from the strong, close-in gravitational field of the earth. A landing on Mars and a take-off from the Martian surface would be extremely costly in fuel, but Dr. Schilt points out that landing on one of the small moons of Mars would cost practically nothing. The outer moon, Deimos, is about five miles in diameter, and has hardly any gravitation. The spaceship could drift toward it and, without expending fuel...
...came time to return to earth, a 10-lb. push would separate a spaceship from its natural merry-go-round. Free of the little moon, it would have satellite velocity, 3,000 m.p.h. in the case of Deimos, so only a moderate additional push would free it from Martian gravitation and start it on the long voyage home...
...stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market nervous"), and a tycoon's diet of "caviar espresso, codfish benedict, vanilla mousse hollandaise," that prompted one hotel guest to remark, aptly: "I think he may be a Martian...