Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...null century is a new age of discovery, this time of space, and the world's educated public is learning a new geography of orbits and gravitational fields, a new jargon of escape velocities and soft landings. Space is not the surface of a sphere as Columbus' ocean was. It is three-dimensional, its lands are in rapid motion, and its snuggest harbors are more dangerous than the earth's most hostile coast. Its ships are finned and flame-tailed, guided by gyroscopes and coded signals...
...survey and map the new, strange face of space, TIME correspondents interviewed leading astronomers for the latest news about the undiscovered lands that circle in the solar system, talked to astronauts for instruction in the sailing directions of man's new element. For a guide to this new geography, see SCIENCE, Push into Space...
...ironies is that the exploration of space is inescapably tangled up with the momentous struggle called the cold war. Some of the talented scientists helping to shape U.S. space policy in Washington seem to think that by labeling outer space a "civilian" domain they can keep it free of the contaminating struggle. For a down-to-earth look at this wistful illusion and its dangers, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, On Pain of Extinction...
...smile stretching his brush mustache, his arm half-raised in greeting with fingers waggling briskly, Anastas Mikoyan, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, was busier than a checker in a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon. In the space of a week, he whirled through official and unofficial Washington, raced on to luncheons, dinners and informal question games in Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. In between appointments, he inspected stores, gave candy to a baby, shook hands along auto assembly lines, peered at new gadgets and chomped on an airline's free Chiclets...
...administration now is able to place families only by taking advantage of all housing facilities. If it tries to put Kirkland men only in Kirkland, for instance, it will waste already scarce space," Taylor continued. He added that seniors, Glee Club members, and ushers who remain for Commencement would also have to be accommodated...