Word: outer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., May 6--A U.N. committee approved today a United States plan for getting the world started on international cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space...
...walls are laced with pipes and conduits. In one room were stacks upon stacks of tape recordings of satellite data, neatly sorted according to tracking station-Singapore, Ibadan, Lima, Heidelberg. In another, students pored over the squiggly lines that are man's first clues to the geography of outer space. Other students tested electrical components no bigger than grains of rice, soldering them together with hair-thin wires, and carefully fitting them into assemblies...
From Pioneer III, Van Allen discovered that there are not one but two radiation belts, with a low-intensity slot between them. Studying the tapes, he concluded that the outer belt is made of weaker particles, presumably protons and electrons that come from the sun. At its outer edges, it curves downward in "horns" that hit the atmosphere near the magnetic poles. These horns were what produced the northern lights...
...Allen's conclusions were confirmed when Pioneer IV soared past the moon and into orbit around the sun. Its tiny, 1-lb. radio transmitter, which was followed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory's receiving stations for 400,000 miles, reported that the outer radiation belt does not die off evenly. Beyond it are irregular bursts of radiation that may be clouds of electrons and protons arriving fresh from the sun. Such invisible clouds in space may prove serious hazards for future deep-space voyagers...
...their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether to nationalize...