Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Furthermore, the limitation imposed by the speed of light itself means that communication, even between planets, will be difficult. There will be a three minute transit time for messages from Mars to the Earth; clearly a conversation in the earthly sense is impossible. Even between the earth and nearby moon, there will be a two and a half-second delay. At interstellar distances, communications will require years to reach their destinations. Travel will be infinitely slower, and anyone who sets out to visit a star cannot expect his children, or probably his children's children, to live...
FICTION 1. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (1, last week) 2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 3. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (3) 4. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler(4) 5. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (5) 6. $100 Misunderstanding, Cover (6) 7. A Shade of Difference, Drury (7) 8. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 9. Triumph, Wylie (9) 10. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara...
...Moon Orbit. Hence the enormous prestige Nasser won in 1956, when he survived the massed assault of Britain, France and Israel in the Suez War. Arabs ignored the fact that the Egyptians were beaten in the field and that only intervention by the U.S. and the Soviet Union saved Nasser from collapse. What mattered was that Nasser had engaged the imperialists and Israel in battle, and managed to survive. When Egypt later proved that it had the technical skill to operate the Suez Canal efficiently on its own. Arab nationalists were as proud as if Nasser had personally orbited...
...where new contributions came in for days. Old women gave their favorite dresses; men on unemployment relief gave half their monthly checks. "It was incredible," said a Corpsman, "and you know, from that time on, we've been accepted around here. Until then we might have been from the moon. Now we feel right at home...
...Moon-Spinners, Stewart...