Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blood-Red Moon. The Met's production of Wozzeck does full justice to its dramatic power. The sets by Germany's Caspar Neher are starkly effective: a phosphorescently glowing landscape dominated by a blood-red moon and lumpish, Van Gogh-like stumps of trees; a solidly bourgeois German hill town, contrasting with the madness unfolding before it. Hero of the evening: Conductor Karl Boehm, who, after an unprecedented 24 rehearsals, led his huge orchestra through Berg's convoluted score with masterful clarity and passion...
...once because a radio instrument failed to function. On the third night the bird lifted off only 4 seconds late. The Jupiter fired for 182 seconds. As it passed through a high veil of cloud, a bluish ring formed around its orange tail flame like a ring around the moon. After 55 seconds of dark coasting, a faint light bloomed in the sky as the second-stage rockets fired. Then Pioneer IV disappeared...
...perkily pretty Queen Frederilca and towering King Paul shared a turn about the floor and a moment of royal amusement. Later, Her Majesty gave a club group a few homey recollections of last fall's U.S. trip. Sample: when the Queen asked to see the launching of a moon rocket she was told that the request posed difficulties because future visitors might use it as a precedent. "Why don't you," suggested Frederika helpfully, "make a rule that only queens and upwards...
WASHINGTON, March 4--America's Pioneer IV shot past the moon late today and headed for a solar orbit scientists say will last as long as the universe does...
...pass came at 5:24 p.m. EST. Scientists calculated the 13-pound cone came within 37,000 mles of the moon. At the time, government scientists said, the gold-plated vehicle was 236,000 miles from earth...