Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtaken. Shortly after noon, the first wreckage was sighted. On the impenetrable, rock-jagged slope between Chuar (pronounced shwar) Butte and Temple Butte, just inside the eastern edge of the majestic Grand Canyon, lay the shattered pieces of the Constellation, identifiable by her tail surfaces. Around 7 o'clock the next morning, searchers found the remains of the United 718 on a ledge at the top of Chuar Butte, 1,000 ft. from the Connie...
Minstreling through Dixie, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley proved that in the rock-'n'-roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed...
According to Stair's theory, tektites came from the lost planet too. He thinks that on its surface was light, glassy material that had separated like cream as the heavier metal and rock sank toward the center of the planet. This separation may have happened on the earth too, but water erosion destroyed the glass...
...lost planet there was no water, so the glass on its surface survived until the final breakup. Then chunks of it sailed around the solar system along with chunks of metal and rock. When they hit the earth's atmosphere, the glass shattered into small fragments as soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached...
...Buddy Buddy (Bill Haley & His Comets; Decca). Rock 'n' roll at its gosh-darndest, with something that goes off like pistol shots on the offbeats, a recurrent crash of someone (apparently) smashing dishes between harmonies, and, out front, Haley himself, exuberant with thoughts of his own vitality...