Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important nationally that spring was the discovery of a new planet just beyond Neptune. The discovery was made by the Lowell Institute in Arizona, which had been started by President Lowell's brother, Percival Lowell '76. Suggested names for the new planet included Kronos, Constance (after the founder's widow), Percival (after the founder), and Atlas...
Weaver's latest, greatest show (previous ones: the spectaculars, Home, Today, Tonight) is a super-spectacular, at least in conception. Its first program will cost $150,000. NBC unblushingly reports: "The Planet Itself and Everything on It Inspired NBC President Weaver to Conceive Show Which No Person Young at Heart Can Ever Forget." Showing the wide, wide world will require twelve mobile units, 40 cameras, 1,000 performers and technicians, 10,000 miles of telephone line. It will hop cross-country from Broadway to the shores of San Diego and the ski slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east...
...nonapparent. No half-tones ... I roll to the right and there it is. Out of the tiny window slits there is the earth, wiped clean of civilization . . . The earth curves to the south. It is as if I am the only living thing connected to this totally strange, uninhabited planet 15 miles below...
...celestial star sights, a process that involves only himself, his sextant and the heavenly bodies. Last week New York's Kollsman Instrument Corp. gave the ancient science of celestial navigation a modern twist, announced a new sextant that, once preset, will seek out the proper star or planet, average a series of sights, and flash its readings by remote control to the navigator. With a three-star fix, he can pinpoint the position of his aircraft within two miles under normal flight conditions. But the big advantage lies in the fact that he can do it without ever budging...
Finally, only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of Interhuman strife, and can preserve the pending exterminations of man by man on this planet...