Word: outer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss for the Girls. The Reds turned for help to President Sukarno, whom they had strongly supported-and tried to make their captive-when the Sumatra colonels began their 1958 right-wing revolt in the Outer Islands. Two years ago, dissatisfied with the role of Indonesia's three leading non-Communist parties, Sukarno had called for Communist participation in the government because "a horse can't stand on three legs." Now an officer boasts that the army "will provide the fourth...
...antenna at Goldstone Dry Lake, Calif, changed to a special filter and held the signal for a few minutes more. A receiver of General Electric's at Schenectady, N.Y. heard the signal intermittently for about an hour longer. Then it faded out. Some 410,000 miles away in outer space, Pioneer IV, the U.S.'s first man-made planet, wheeled on around the sun, but now silent forever...
...injection of dye for making detailed brain X rays. After two or three days comes stage two: another hole is drilled higher up in the skull, and the surgeons insert an insulated steel wire through three inches of brain until its thickened electrode tip lodges in the thalamus. The outer end is anchored to the skull...
Nobody expected much from the Pappies when they were put together last November. The handsome, well-built (6 ft. 3 in., 194 Ibs.) Litzenberger was an in and outer who had only occasionally shown the brilliance that made him rookie of the year in 1954. The small (160 Ibs.), scrappy Lindsay was considered past his peak, came to Chicago last year after 13 brilliant years as a star with the Detroit Red Wings. Sloan, most recently a bench warmer for the Toronto Maple Leafs, was bought last summer chiefly for utility purposes...
...Medicine for Melancholy, by Ray Bradbury. A fine collection of typically inner-directed short stories by science fiction's suavest outer-bounder...