Word: sunlite
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...this sunlit night last week, Crofter Willie Fraser and his son were hoeing turnips in the garden of their low stone cottage near the inlet. They looked up to see a man come racing over the headland. He stumbled once or twice, then reached them, gasping out words in Russian and German, pointing in terror behind him, repeatedly making the gesture of slitting his throat. Recognizing a fugitive, Fraser did the human thing: he hid the man, one Erich Teayn, 32, in his cottage...
...drab is a girl named Hilda, and the dim is a boy named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course...
...French Polynesia, Tahiti, 2,600 miles southeast of Hawaii, spends most of its time dreaming under swaying palms while the surf breaks gently on the coral reefs. Generations of expatriates-from Melville to Robert Louis Stevenson to Gauguin-have fled to the islands seeking forgetfulness in the company of sunlit skies and black-haired amoral vahines...
This rough aiming is not good enough, either to hit the moon or to orbit around it. So toward the end of the journey a scanning device will pick up the moon's sunlit face, fix its position, and an artificial brain will figure out what to do next. It can light a small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report...
...Britain's 250-ft. radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank turned itself into an impromptu radar and pinpointed the satellite or its carrier rocket over Britain. As the slowly shifting orbit carried Sputnik over the east coast of the U.S., hundreds of early risers in New England saw the sunlit speck sweep across the predawn sky. Some saw two moving objects, the brighter of which was probably the carrier. Shot on film at Baltimore by WJZ-TV using a camera with a secret Bendix light amplifier, the spectacle was broadcast to the U.S. over Westinghouse TV stations...