Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to this nonsense, there is no doubt in my mind that Russian children will be exploring the moon while Mr. Reiner's children continue to explore Mount Baldy...
...Arthur I. Gates of Columbia's Teachers College seemed to prove that children recognize words by visible "clues." For example, said Gates, the "tail" (or y) at the end of the word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...
...Moon Anteater. Lederberg is working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on a no-return device that will look for traces of life on the moon. Carefully sterilized before launching to protect the moon from the earth's organisms, Lederberg's spacecraft will be a sort of mechanical anteater with a sticky tongue for licking up lunar dust and placing it under a microscope to be examined by a television camera. If the camera reports to earth that the dust contains spores that may have the power of coming to dangerous life, the first manned voyage...
...week; the upper two stages of the rocket were dummies filled with water for ballast. Saturn is scheduled to make its first operational flight in 1964, will have enough power to orbit a ten-ton satellite around the earth or dump a four-ton load of instruments on the moon. By 1966, an advanced model Saturn, boosted by two 1,500,000-lb. North American F-1 engines, is programed to put a three-man spacecraft called Apollo into orbit around the moon. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes to start landing instruments on the moon next year with...
...Known Him."Then Eisenhower, whose funnybone is about as small as his wishbone is large, had essayed some heavy sarcasm at the expense of the magna cum laude from Smith. The Peace Corps, he said, is a "juvenile experiment. If you want to take a trip to the moon, why not send a Peace Corps up there? It is an undeveloped country...