Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disregard of President Eisenhower's call for a show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed in San Francisco, where huge mobs of pickets chased his taxiing airplane, and indeed swarmed to within lapel's reach, a shaken Mikoyan was ready to observe with a sniff that "in Russia we stand for freedom-not for hoodlums, but for freedom from hoodlums...
...Mars, whose orbit is outside the earth's, the spaceship must climb up the side of the sun's gravitational pit-by speeding up. To reach Venus it must climb down-by slowing down...
...fight free of the earth, the space navigator must reach a speed called escape velocity. Figured at the surface of the earth, this is 25,000 m.p.h. But rockets do not start suddenly. They accelerate gradually, keeping their speed fairly low while still in the atmosphere, then spurting quickly. If a rocket is moving 24,000 m.p.h. when it is 300 miles above the surface, it will escape from the earth's gravitation. When the Russian Lunik launchers, watching their bird with Doppler (speed-measuring) radios, saw it pass the critical speed, they knew it would never return...
Near the rim of the earth's gravitational pit is a much smaller pit belonging to the moon. An object shot away from the earth at 24,800 m.p.h. will reach the boundary, about 34,000 miles short of the moon, where the moon's pull is as strong as the earth's. If it reaches this point with a small velocity, it will fall on the moon. If it crosses the line at good speed, it will shoot past the moon, its course merely deflected. This is what happened to the Lunik...
...treatises on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Potter developed his brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what...