Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crazy He Calls Me (Dakota Staton; Capitol LP). Singer Staton is an ample woman with a more than ample voice and a gaudy spectrum of moods. She can be broadly comic in How High the Moon, exuberant in No Moon at All, anguished in Morning, Noon or Night. In Can't Live Without Him Any More she hits the listener with a sound like an unmuted brass section. What makes her album a delight, though, is its sheer exuberance, suggesting that nobody is getting more kicks than Dakota herself...
...waves that Professor Gold theorized as coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
...station in Cambridge last week began to receive transatlantic radio messages bounced off the moon by a huge British radio telescope. The U.S. Air Force Research Center here picked up Morse code messages relayed off the surface of the moon from the British transmitter at Jodrell Bank. Later messages have been direct voice transmissions...
Although using the moon as a radio relay point is not a new technique, the Americans and British expect it to be a convenient way of keeping in touch without interference from ships and other radio users. The British radio telescope, the world's largest, is used for tracking American moon shots and satellites...
...place somewhere in Louisiana that is not altogether unlike a Williams, a Faulkner, a Welty locale, Kopit's play concerns the visit of an old school friend to the home of a robust insurance man, his supremely sensitive wife, and their brattish children. The visitor, Emmanuel Moon, a graciously sinister spectre, says he has come to collect on an adolescent promise made by George "Chopper" Feering, a raging "bull" who raised living standards in the country by convincing dying old men to buy insurance instead of medical care...