Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dense lower atmosphere, a rocket headed into space must start slowly and speed up to escape velocity only after it has climbed above nearly all of the atmosphere. At high altitude the necessary speed is somewhat less than 25,000 m.p.h. because the earth's gravitational pull grows weaker with distance. To reach the moon requires slightly less speed than to escape entirely, since the moon is not at an infinite distance and because its own gravitational pull can offset the earth's diminishing pull if the rocket gets close enough. When Pioneer had risen above the atmosphere...
...Archaeology sing the praises of the Mediterranean, "this happy sea." Italy's Communist Senator Velio Spano, whom nobody could remember having invited, somehow got the floor, delivered the customary party-lining rant against the West. Next day a Moroccan delegate angrily demanded that the Americans, French and Spaniards pull out of North Africa. A French Senator rose to protest that he had not come all the way to Florence to hear a "systematic critique of my country." Cried an F.L.N. delegate of the war in Algeria: "A colonialist war! An unjust...
...lead as the nation's leading ground-gainer, averaged 11.3 yds. a carry for 135 yds. as little (enrollment: 1,670) College of the Pacific rolled over Brigham Young 26-8. Outgained in all departments, Navy made use of a rocklike defense to stop Michigan drives seven times, pull a 20-14 upset to label itself a slight threat to Army in the East. Cornell proved once more the folly of Ivy League teams competing outside their own bailiwick. The undefeated Big Red got mauled 55-0 by Syracuse in a game so lopsided that Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder...
...emergency fire fighters to Lebanon and Jordan, and the whole world scrambled for the summit in asbestos suits. Last week, on the strength of International Fire Chief Dag Hammarskjold's diplomatic finding that the flames were now well under control, the U.S. and Britain announced that they would pull all their men out of the two little countries by month...
Kozol doesn't develop what love in "perspective" is; how the "stupidity" of the "system" reaches out across oceans to pull back its victims; who is a likely victim and who is not. He has spent the greater part of his time rejoicing in discovery. His rejoicing is good and sexy, stylish, sometimes overdone but good. In his next book I'd like to read more about the "system" we so often feel and so seldom really...