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...main objective of the experiment," Lilley explained, is the measurement of the temperature of the surface of the planet on the night side, along the path separating day and night, and on the sunlit side...
...wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches her big pink blanket grow smaller and smaller...
While Sigma 7 bobbed on the little waves of the sunlit Pacific, Schirra reported by radio that he was dry and comfortable and would prefer to be picked up while still in his own ship. "A sweet little bird," he remarked. Helicopters dropped frogmen into the water, and they attached inflatable tubes to keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch...
...Miss yell spiraled through the crisp sunlit air like a football passed by Chuckin' Charley Conerly of legendary lore. Boys, lean and brimming with youthful vigor, horseplayed around-almost as if they were unconscious of the pretty coeds who watched them. Right down to the blue and maroon freshman beanies, the scene was of the sort to make alumni hearts swell with bittersweet memories of days long gone. But beneath all the laughter, beneath all the seeming exuberance, was an ugly, constantly recurring question. "When," the kids asked one another, "will the nigger come...
...preoccupations, the astronaut found time to take a careful, searching look at the earth below him. And he brought back the best report yet of how man's home looks from nearby space. The sky is velvety black, he said, and against it the sunlit earth glows in brilliant shades of blue and green-colors hard to imagine or duplicate because of their wonderful purity. Everywhere the earth is flecked with white clouds. When his capsule swept over the dark side of the earth, the ground was lit only by the feeble glow of the quarter-moon...