Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday the hockey and wrestling teams travel to Hanover for league encounters, and both should be rated favorites to down the Big Green. The varsity hockey team, sufficiently rested after defeats at the hands of Providence College and the Russians, faces one of the few teams in the Ivy League capable of giving it a battle for the championship...
...earth's gravitational pit, it is still deep in the sun's pit. This does not mean that it will fall into the sun. Besides the comparatively small speed contributed by its own engine, it also has the earth's speed in its travel on its orbit. If the ship has only barely escape velocity, it will circle around the sun indefinitely on an orbit close to the earth's-just as bombs, in the newsreel pictures of a decade ago, seemed to hover in space just below the plane that released them...
Perhaps the most striking thing about space navigation is the ease of longdistance travel after successful launching. Mars never comes closer to the earth than 34.5 million miles, Venus never closer than 25 million miles. To cover these great distances, it takes more time (146 days to Venus, 260 days to Mars), but only slightly more speed than is needed to go to the moon, which is only 230,000 miles away. This is because space between the planets is comparatively smooth. It is only slightly affected by planetary gravitation, and the great pull of the sun is countered...
WANDERING AMERICANS will lay out $28 billion for travel this year, up 12% from record 1958. They will spend $2.5 billion in foreign travel in 1959, close to $5 billion by 1964, predicts American Society of Travel Agents...
However, the arrival in Boston and Cambridge of two Jean Gabin films, both in the finest roman policier manner, should seriously damage the rating of such standbys as Wyatt Earp, Rawhide, Have Gun-Will Travel, and Gunsmoke. Gabin, of course, is the acknowledged king of French tommy-gun flicks. With his slightly paunchy and degenerate mien he is the very image of the slightly world-weary tuff guy, and the casual manner in which he slaps around both the guilty and the innocent is beyond compare...