Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singsong, merry-go-round, Here we go off to the moon...
...price of a ticket to the moon, in the children's nursery rhyme, was a single foundling penny and the method of transportation a kite. For the rocket-borne commercial space traveler of the future, the tab will be considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed cost analysis presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during...
...sending an ungainly rocket aloft from a snow-covered field at his aunt's farm in Auburn. At the request of alarmed residents, the Auburn police asked him to get out of town. His neighbors in Worcester considered him a crackpot, with his talk of rockets to the moon. They called him "Moony," were relieved to be rid of him when he went West to New Mexico in search of health and more open space for rocketeering...
Since 1946, when U.S. scientists first bounced radar signals off the surface of the moon, the poor old man in the moon has been the target of constant electronic bombardment from earth. Last week the clear, familiar strains of America the Beautiful, broadcast from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Goldstone. Calif., were picked up three seconds later in Holmdel, N.J. after a 500,000-mile round trip to the moon. The dramatic experiment was staged by Bell Telephone Laboratories to demonstrate new equipment with which Bell hopes to bounce signals off a string of ''passive" gyroscopic satellites. Launched...
...enables her to put her voice within the heart of every tone. The selections scarcely call for her full power, but they summon humor, a swinging beat and dramatic conviction. As Farrell alternately becomes the raucously betrayed woman (Blues In the Night), the languorous lady of experience (Old Devil Moon), the world-weary floozy (Ten Cents a Dance), even the weariest lines emerge fresh and endlessly inventive. If she ever quits serious music, she might become the country's best jazz singer...