Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer, Oscar Schachter, deputy director of the United Nations Legal Division, raised the question of who owns space. He suggested that all space beyond a planet's atmosphere be designated as a sort of "high seas," open to all comers under a kind of interplanetary admiralty...
...Austrians wanted to express their gratitude," he records. "Their astronomers discovered a new planet and named it Hooveria. That ought to have placed me among the Greek gods, for names of planets had been . . . previously reserved for them. However, some member of a world astronomical committee on nomenclature subsequently protested, and I was put off Olympus."* He dealt on his own terms with Lloyd George ("He was as nimble as the pea in a shell game") and Clemenceau ("He never did understand Mr. Wilson. I don't think he tried to"), and played a bigger role at Versailles than...
...distant planet, inhabited by men far more scientifically advanced than earth, has done away with war. Now that the earthmen have rocket power almost within their grasp, the space people are afraid that aggression will spread to other hemispheres. They send an envoy on a mission to rid the earth of war, but people have become so imbued with a distrust towards anything that will bring about real peace, that the envoy has to take drastic measures and is almost destroyed in the process...
Klaatu comes from an unnamed planet 250 million miles away and thousands of years more advanced than the earth. His 4,000-m.p.h. spaceship pancakes to a perfect landing near the Washington Mall, and he steps out with a friendly greeting into a hostile ring of troops, tanks and artillery. When a jittery G.I. puts a bullet into Klaatu, a huge robot lumbers out of the spaceship and emits a ray that melts the weapons in the soldiers' hands and the tanks right out from under them. The wounded Klaatu signals a halt to the demonstration, is whisked...
...tape and international tensions make such a meeting impossible. Bent on learning more about the earth's strange ways, Klaatu escapes from the hospital, pilfers an earthling's business suit and, as a lodger in a Washington boarding house, becomes the sanest, calmest man on the planet...