Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (4) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (3) 5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (9) 6. Triumph, Wylie (7) 7. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (5) 8. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (8) 9. The Centaur, Updike 10. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton...
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...people to be interested in moon rockets and such stuff-there at Alabama's Huntsville space center was former first magnitude Film Star Gloria Swanson, 6.4, hearing all about other worlds from a man she had long admired, Rocket Scientist Dr. Wernher von Broun, 51. "I felt self-conscious taking his time," said Gloria. "If you're a woman, people think you have feathers in your head, especially if you're from Hollywood. But I poked around asking what's this, how does that work, what's that little green thing? It was fascinating...
...other experiments, the pyrometer will measure how fast the surface of the moon cools. From the cooling rate, astronomers hope to estimate the size of the particles composing the moon's surface--rocks or dust...
Under favorable conditions, the thermistor can detect a change in temperature on the moon of less than one degree Fahrenheit. The Infrared Laboratory has invented and built another detector, called a ferroelectric bolometer, which promises to be even more sensitive. It should be able, for example, to detect the heat given off by a human hand flashing across it from across the room...