Word: bombardment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VOYAGE OF THE HERETIQUE (214 pp.)-Alain Bombard-Simon & Schusfer...
Food in the Sea. Author Alain Bombard's Atlantic adventure, set down in The Voyage of the Heretique, was even more primitive than Gheerbrant's Amazonian hardships. For 65 days and nights, from the Canaries to the West Indies, he was alone on the vast waters of the ocean (TIME. Jan. 5. 1953), living only on the fish and birds he could catch and eat raw and the liquid he could get from...
...theory. The sun's corona does blaze at approximately 1,000,000° C., they conceded, but who can believe that the enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes in the sun's shell, opening on to a cool black core where plant life changes heat into chemical energy, thus lowering the temperature? Pure nonsense, said the scientists. As for heat...
...secret of Lucy's pregnancy. Plans were laid to tie in the show with the Columbia record of There's a Brand New Baby at Our House and I Love Lucy, both sung by Desi and played by his orchestra. All the pressagents promised to bombard newspapers, magazines and wire services with feature stories. CBS was given a special assignment: "The matter of filming the pregnancy story was so delicate that three clergymen were present to see that everything was in good taste and would offend no one: Rabbi Wolf for the Jewish faith, Monsignor Devlin...
...Bombard felt that he had proved his point. "It was wonderful, terrible and interesting," he said, "but I never want to eat fish again...