Word: outerness
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With the problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will no doubt switch to Chesterfields-and there will be more sinister orders to come. From the ridiculous to the subliminal is only a second step...
Marshal Pétain. "In spite of everything, I am convinced that in other times Marshal Petain would not have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...
...trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers uncorked howls that the bid was an "insulting courtesy." Result: the canny offer humbly withdrawn, no cut-rate...
Paul LeComte 7G described important experiments in the field of high-pressure physical geology under the direction of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, which are attempting to reveal the nature of unexplained structural discontinuities just below the earth's outer crust...
...world: the Air Force's 85-ft. 8,600-lb. ICBM Atlas had been fired, not in a trajectory whose end was a watery South Atlantic target but into the skies. Its tape recording of President Eisenhower's greetings heralded the beginning of worldwide communications through outer space. Earlier U.S. satellites were fired in stages, dropped sections after burnout, and finally flung small instrumented payloads into orbit around the earth. But somehow there was greater impact in the fact that the body of the Atlas went up in one piece, was circling the globe...