Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technician whose best known preoccupation is reaching for the moon, famed German-born Rocketeer Wernher von Broun, went in the opposite direction, harnessed himself into skindiving apparatus and plunged into a tank at Miami's Seaquarium for a submarine safari. Also an underwater hunter, Spaceman von Braun recently bagged a 50-lb. grouper in the shallows off Florida's west coast...
...near population centers work in ordinary-looking laboratories. Their projects are quiet ones: electronics, meteorology, untangling the scrambled figures that come from field experiments. Some of these are hard to believe. The Air Force Research Center at Cambridge, Mass., for instance, has a program for mapping mountains on the moon, an operation seemingly unconnected with flight on earth...
...Irregularities on the moon's surface affect the observation of solar eclipses, which can be used to measure accurately the distances between earthly continents. This is important for the Air Force's most ambitious project, the intercontinental ballistic missile...
...because the movie deals with the taboo subject of dope addiction. U.A. promptly quit the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the code, went ahead with plans to release the movie, starring Frank Sinatra, in Manhattan this week, had high hopes that, like Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, also released without a code seal, it will make a killing at the box office...
Gold believes htat dust and debris from the crater-building explosions filled in most of the older craters on the moon's surface. Since there is neither wind nor rain on the moon, the dust would stay more or less where it settled except when agitated by thermal or electrical disturbances. If such is the case, says gold, the dust could "flow over the surface like a liquid, running down the sides of cold craters to fill in the bottoms." Gold therefore believes that the moon's vast plains are not exposed layers of lava but oceans...