Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every time Michigan's hard-pressed Republican State Chairman John Feikens hears the Republicans called the rich man's party, he wonders, forlornly, what country and what planet the Democrats are talking about. Feikens' job is to defeat a Democratic ticket next month that is: 1) headed by Michigan's popular four-term Governor G. Mennen Williams, millionaire heir to a soap fortune; 2) seconded by Lieut. Governor Phil Hart, who married an automobile fortune; and 3) backed to the hilt by Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers of America, whose 700,000 Michigan members...
...planet Mars was bigger, brighter, and closer to the earth last week than it has been in 32 years. On Sept. 7 it passed within 35,200,000 miles. Not until 1971 will it come so close again...
...Yellow Planet. As Mars drew close last week, even laymen noticed that it could hardly be called red. This time it looked definitely yellow. One reason for this, reported astronomers from Japan to Texas, was a gigantic, yellow dust cloud, presumably raised by unusual turbulence in the Martian atmosphere. It was first seen by Japanese astronomers in the middle of August. Later it spread until it obscured much of the planet's surface, making all observation difficult...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TIME, April...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life and love in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TiME, April...