Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear Hagen's progress report, delegates strained for their notebooks when he started to tick off key facts. One engrossed note taker: Russia's Vladimir Kotelnikov, who headed a 16-man delegation. Kotelnikov shrugged off questions about Russia's progress in moon making: "They will launch one when they are ready...
...skin. A C-47 with a paramedic aboard started to track his flight. Down below, radar blips traced his path and a meteorologist turned a weather eye on the heavens. To help science, Simons carried along a good-luck charm from his wife bearing an outline of the moon and the inscription: "When you land here, it's time to return." Heading for the moon, Simons clicked his cameras, chatted into his tape recorder, took dozens of readings with 500 lbs. of scientific gear, and radioed back a confident message: "I'm having...
...Suspicious of the old wives' tale that more babies are born at full moon than other times, Obstetrician Ernest T. Ripp-mann of Lancaster, Pa. checked 9,551 births for a ten-year period, found nothing to it. On the contrary, slightly more babies were born close to the new moon than to the full moon...
...Said Harry Truman to reporters after death of Franklin Roosevelt, "I don't know if any of you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on him. But last night the whole weight of the moon and the stars fell...
...gateway to the late period, is too well known to need extended comment here. Let it be said that the transition from the slow movement to the last was marked by some of the most scintillating trills it has been this reviewer's pleasure to hear in many a moon, and that the Finale was played with plenty of Entschlossenheit according to Beethoven's directions...