Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above three items, all true, lead one to reconsider the warning of Mr. Eric Sevareid of CBS news last year, that perhaps we shouldn't rush off so quickly to see the other side of the moon. We're not ready, he said, because we don't yet known enough about the dark side of ourselves. Bearing in mind also the item from Ripley's Believe It Or Not that the Man in the Moon is upside down in South America, the Administration should give Servareid's idea serious consideration...
...division of responsibility has lost months for Von Braun's Saturn program, the U.S.'s best chance to match the big Soviet moon rockets in the mid-1960s. Von Braun proposed Saturn, with rocket engines designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off thrust, after Sputnik I revealed the U.S.S.R.'s enormous launching capacity. Nobody in authority responded until the Russians blasted 7,000 Ibs. into space with Sputnik III in May 1958. Then the Pentagon ordered Von Braun to get to work on Saturn. The Budget Bureau promptly tried to stop it, and Director...
...Robert Oppenheimer developed the A-bomb under the get-things-done command of the Army's General Leslie Groves. A get-things-done type from the military today would be of the caliber of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, a man-to-the-moon enthusiast and organizational genius, or Air Force Lieut. General Bernard Schriever, who brought the Atlas ICBM to operational capability, or Admiral Arthur Radford, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...shocked Italy's literary world. But even in his hour of triumph, he found a moment to demean the merit of Soviet Author Boris (Doctor Zhiuago) Pasternak, reluctant rejecter of last year's Nobel award. Huffed Nobelman Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite in 1957, he turned out an ode titled The New Moon for Italy's Communist daily L'Unita...
...Moon and Sixpence (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). Sir Laurence Olivier makes Ms American TV debut in Somerset Maugham's modern classic. With a superb supporting cast, including Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Cyril Cusak. Color...