Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Première of an ambitious news show that attempts to look at everything under the moon-and probably a few things on it. The opening program, with Chet Huntley as narrator, deals with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have escaped from East to West Germany...
...moon-probe Pioneer, which burned out over the South Pacific after staying in space for 43 hours, rose 79,000 miles-or only one-third of the distance to the moon. But it made a much nearer miss than the figures seem to show. The earth's gravitational field drops off with the square of the distance. With only 2% more thrust or only about 580 more m.p.h. peak velocity. Pioneer could have passed the moon* and escaped from the earth forever...
...Pioneer's failure to circumnavigate the moon reminded at least one British columnist of a quatrain that Poet Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) claimed was written by his housemaid ad found under her mattress: O moon, when I look on thy beautiful face Careering along through the boundries of space The thought has quite frequently come in my mind. If I'll ever gaze on thy glorious behind...
...steeper than it should have been. This steepness reduced the advantage that was obtained from the slingshot effect of the earth's eastward rotation. Air Force experts say that a loss of speed less than 600 m.p.h. was enough to make the probe fall far short of the moon's orbit...