Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon is big in the Pacific at 5 a.m., and it shines through the window of a lonely, olive-drab Quonset hut. On the rocky, typhoon-tossed island of Culion, a leprosarium 200 miles southwest of Manila, Bachelor Harold Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will...
Over this river there is a moon, but it does not give much light. And I cannot stop thinking... The passport office refused to issue Peter's passport, because she was a transvestite from Brooks House, employed by the Yale Daily News to find out what was shoe at Radcliffe. Harvard rusticated me for getting an E in Fitzway's course. My notes were all on Peter, and Snyde refused to lend...
...Spin. Since Pioneer III never approached the moon, not all its instruments came into play. The most novel one was an optical gadget designed to send a radio signal when it saw a bright object the size of the moon at a distance of 22,000 miles. The instrument was shielded from the sun, and it would have been activated by a timing device only after the receding earth looked smaller than the approaching moon...
Rotation Control. If the satellite can be made to rotate once in 90 minutes (the period of its revolution), its camera can point at the earth all the time-just as the moon rotates so as to keep one side always facing the earth. A promising way to control the satellite's rotation is to give it apparatus that observes the earth's horizon and keeps the satellite in steady alignment with it by squirting out stabilizing jets...
...Glaser: "Assembling models is the nation's leading hobby. It even beats stamp collecting." This year total model kit sales will account for $75 million of the $1.5 billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket to the moon (price: $1.98) and a Jupiter-C intermediate-range missile (price $1.98). To attract girls, there will be $1.98 life-size models of Walt Disney's squirrel Perri, a tiny koala bear and a beagle puppy, each with three bags of fur and a sprayer to apply the coat...