Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to the day after the beeps of Sputnik I proclaimed the beginning of the space age, the U.S.S.R. celebrated the anniversary by announcing a far more advanced step into space: a rocket shot that this week sent a 600-lb. instrumented payload hurtling into space on a trajectory calculated to curve around the moon and swing back toward the earth. The moon probe (see SCIENCE) required a rocket thrust of at least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because...
...back. When he finally got to Washington, the weather was so bad that the welcoming ceremonies-honor guard, music and all-had to be held in a hangar at the MATS terminal. Moreover, a few Italians were miffed because President Eisenhower was not at the field (he sent Vice President Nixon to greet Segni), and because the President took off on his California vacation right after having Segni to lunch. The person who seemed to mind least was Antonio Segni himself. Small and frail at 68, Sardinia-born Statesman Segni glided through his visit with a quiet confidence drawn from...
...Then they started raising me, and all of a sudden the shark swam away. It took me about half a day before I could get up enough nerve to go back down again." Deir himself was working below decks when his acetylene torch sparked an explosion. Sent ashore to a hospital, he turned up again in a few days, scabbed with black burns. Said he: "We got work to do, boys...
Lunik III carried "scientific and radio equipment powered by solar batteries and chemical sources of electricity." The Russians explained that radio signals carrying data from the instruments would be sent to earth intermittently for a total of two to four hours a day. "The operation of the equipment will be controlled from a coordinating and computing center on the earth." Since Soviet receiving stations do not girdle the turning earth, Lunik III was presumably programed to transmit its signals only when they would reach Soviet territory...
...with the persistence of a questing lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced, on request, 60 different pre-17th century French songs...