Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are also capable of engaging in more innocent pursuits. At International Business Machines Corp., one of the more complicated computers recently spent 40 hours calculating the motions of the moon, sun and planets for 600 years as they cruised over ancient Babylon...
...Babylonians and their predecessors in Mesopotamia believed that the motions of the heavenly bodies had an intimate influence on human affairs. When they recorded current events-the start of a war, say, or a drop in the price of barley-they were likely to include the position of the moon on that day. or the location of a couple of planets. Today, if a scholar studying the clay tablets of ancient Babylon wants to know the exact date of a given event, all he has to do is to calculate the date when the heavenly bodies were in their recorded...
...John Glenn's return to earth from his orbital flight, the radios of his Mercury capsule were blacked out for seven minutes by the plasma sheath. Laser light, if strong enough, can penetrate plasma, and Dr. Tomiyasu believes that returning space vehicles of the future, such as Apollo moon capsules or Dyna-Soar gliders, will use laser burst-communication to talk to the earth despite the flaming meteor trails around them...
...pages, mocking himself as a wretched transvestite, reviling dead gods and performing feats of verbal wire-walking, all to take a distraught Lesbian's mind off her wandering mate. "Do you know," he says in lyrical exasperation, "what has made me the greatest liar this side of the moon? Telling my stories to people like you, to take the mortal agony out of their guts, and stop them from rolling about, and drawing up their feet, and screaming, with their eyes staring over their knuckles...
...amount of mismanaging could hamper Ron Fairly and Tommy Davis, who should battle each other for the batting crown some year; but until L.A. develops a star of Anron's or Mays' stature (no, Wally Moon doesn't rate), their attack is too diffuse to mean much. The L.A. staff, too, is full of huriers who have been potential greats for a suspiciously long period: Drysdale, Koufax, Williams, Podres, Sherry . . . all deliberate speed and much unintentional wildness...