Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More and more, attention turns on the missiles race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Last week Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson moved to strengthen the U.S. position. He appointed a topflight scientist to head the nation's missile program, then handed him the tools he will need...
...cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets his visitors coldly beside a lavender tree, and reluctantly asks them into his villa, a sort of ranch house with ailerons, where the robot synthesizes a snack and serves...
...Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with disc brakes. Both British teams were superbly organized in the pits. The Aston crew came complete with a practical physicist. Working with his slide rule, so the impressed pitmen said, the visiting scientist could calculate within two laps just when a tire would blow...
This world is one that makes genius tear its hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...
...Fred L. Whipple, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, outlined the project before the convention of the American Astronomical Association. They explained that they hope to determine in what ways meteors affect humans and to check the accuracy of some of the current contentions concerning them. One Australian scientist maintains that meteors or meteor dust cause the aurora borealis and torrential rains...