Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 to earth. A lesser speed than escape velocity sets a satellite revolving around the earth just free of the atmosphere. A satellite can be compared to a chip or leaf circling around the sides of a whirlpool without escaping from it or immediately being swallowed...
...near future. Instruments will do much better with far less demand for accommodation. Best of all, the black boxes need not get home alive. If they have radioed their findings back to earth, they can vaporize in a planet's atmosphere or wander into space never to return...
...Russians are known to be planning to put a man up in a satellite. Astronomer Alexander A. Mikhailov, director of Pulkovo Observatory near Leningrad, told a TIME correspondent last week that they are also planning a manned voyage to the moon. The biggest problem, he said, is safe return, and they do not intend to risk a man until they are sure of getting him back alive...
...give up teaching as administrative duties piled up. Recently Taylor's best-reported diversion has been a low-comedy wrangle with the Westchester County American Legion, to whom Sarah Lawrence's progressive-education scheme of life (no formal majors, no grades) smells of left-wingery. Determined to return to a scholar's life, he wrote: "The steadily increasing burden of responsibility placed upon the American college president for administering and financing education has become so great that it removes from him the opportunity to share in the intellectual and educational life...
Twenty-fifth Reunion classes will someday return to live entirely in the Houses, Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, predicted yesterday. He praised a proposal made to that effect last Wednesday by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...