Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loose talk about space travel has gone pretty far; it may be a bit early to think of orbiting Air Force generals and rocket company executives circling the moon. To bring some sense to such flights of fancy, President Lee DuBridge of Caltech last week gave the Western Space Age Conference in Los Angeles a tranquilizing dose of anti-poppycock...
...What then about the military value of space travel? Satellites . . . will make fine reconnaissance vehicles . . . and will be good for weather observations . . . That, as far as I can see, is about the end of the story on the military value of earth satellites. You can't drop a bomb from a satellite; it just won't drop, and to project a bomb to earth is about as difficult as getting our human being back to earth . . . It's no good getting it on the wrong side of the earth...
...Mass. (pop. 11,000) is delighted that Highway 93 pierces the town. Almost at the rumor stage, Wilmington four years ago began to plan for the highway, is prepared now to enjoy its benefits. The town used to lie 45 minutes from Boston by car over snaky roads; superhighway travel time is 20 minutes. Wilmington as a result is becoming a Boston bedroom. To handle the growth, the town's seven-member planning commission drew up tight zoning laws and a town meeting speedily approved them. Proper planning has already produced a bonus. Impressed by Wilmington's farsightedness...
...first light of dawn, the sleepy Siak River town of Pakanbaru was wakened by the tumultuous honking and crying of thousands of disturbed jungle birds. Swarms of Sumatran fireflies, which travel in whirling galaxies resembling slowly moving fireballs, abruptly vanished. Then came the snarl of planes as a flight of old, U.S. -made F-51s swept in to strafe the shacks and hangars of Simpang Tiga airstrip, six miles southwest of town. After them came 16 lumbering transport planes; as they passed overhead, the sun-streaked sky blossomed with silken parachutes that brought 200 paratroopers to earth...
Bitter Lemons is a poignant account of the deepening tragedy of Anglo-Cypriot relations. But it is also much more-a superlative piece of travel writing by an Anglo-Irishman who has long and lovingly rooted himself in the Mediterranean scene. Author Durrell, 46, taps the juice and joy of his Cypriot friends, Greek and Turkish, and his poetic style transforms the Cypriot landscape into a "sun-bruised" demi-paradise...