Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would still remain a mystery, the paradox of a Groton-Harvard-Hyde Park aristocrat becoming a hero of the proletariat. The author does a masterful job of detective-work on that mystery and produces a convincing explanation: 'He always cast his vote for life, for action, for forward motion, for the future.... He responded to what was vital, not to what was lifeless; to what was coming, not to what was passing away...
...hours with Vice President Nixon gave him the chance to invite Nixon to visit Russia (no committal) and to remark on Nixon's youthful appearance (Replied the Vice President, just turned 46: "I feel older inside"). He pitched again at a dinner given by Motion Picture Association President Eric Johnston (who wants bigger sales of U.S. films to the Soviets), which was attended by such big opinion makers as New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stu Symington and Texas' Lyndon Johnson. He had former Disarmament Aide Harold Stassen over for a private lunch...
...filmdom's Oscar, which Mike won for Around the World in 80 Days (still busy at the box offices). No inscription would mar the marble, said David, adding thoughtfully: "We would want to keep the memorial simple." But at week's end Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warned that rights to reproduction of the Oscar are strictly forbidden, and no exceptions will be made-even for Mike...
Newton's Rails. But the basic rules of space flight have been known for centuries. The Chinese, who invented rockets about 1200, did not theorize about them, but Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion, published in 1687, not only explained the principle that makes rockets fly but gave the essential sailing directions for space ships of the future. When a U.S. Atlas or an even bigger (for the present) Soviet space rocket roars into the sky. it runs on rails devised by the ill-tempered Sir Isaac, who sat in his English garden nearly 300 years...
...voyage to Venus, which revolves nearer the sun, the space navigator starts his ship in the direction opposite to the earth's orbital motion. Its net departure speed above escape velocity is subtracted from the orbital speed. This makes it move too slowly to stay on the earth's orbit, so the sun's gravitation curves it inward to Venus...