Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary gala-the four-hour parade through Red Square during which the Soviet armed forces traditionally show off their new weapons. This year, after Khrushchev's talk of intercontinental missiles and the persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow sky was so overcast that the scheduled Red air force flypast had to be canceled...
Judging from recent Russian hardware in the sky, someone will soon plant his country's flag on the surface of the moon and nations will build Sputniks big enough to carry their own arsenals...
Claim conflicts over the moon and various other floating islands may be slightly further off, but there will be ample chance for dispute here as there has been with claims in the past. Occupation of a territory has usually been the prerequisite to sovereignty over it, and the claim situation on Luna will probably follow that of Antarctica, where there is no colonization but many contested claims...
...week's end Harry and Bess dropped in at a Southern California kiddies' mecca, Disneyland, which their grandson is too young to enjoy yet. Among the diversions enjoyed by the young-in-heart Trumans: a ride on a Mark Twain riverboat, a rocket trip to the moon...
...scientists have figured that if nine-tenths of the weight of Sputnik I were invested in additional fuel, the remainder (18.3 Ibs.) would reach the moon. By the same reasoning, the launching rockets of the second Soviet satellite could put 112 Ibs. on the moon. This is enough weight allowance for a powerful atom bomb, which would make brilliant fireworks if it exploded on the darkened face of the moon, and might stir up a conspicuous storm in the dust that covers its surface...