Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Worlds Collide" does have its great moment, however; it comes when a preliminary planet whizzes by near the earth and raises general hell with the tides. Enormous glaciers crash into the sea, earthquakes rumble, and, in a particularly satisfying scene, New York City is destroyed and inundated by the Atlantic ocean. The actual collision between earth and the second planet is shown as a mild pink blip on the TV screen of an escaping rocket ship...
After a milk-run space trip to the planet Xyra (during which the rocket's passengers loll around in armchairs and hold hands to break the monotony), starry-eyed couples disembark to find a city of pink wigwams. This is where a really interesting and imaginative movie could have started--but the characters in this one just kiss and fade...
...Sharers of the chemistry prize were the University of California's Edwin M. McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg. Both were leaders of teams that synthesized the "transuranian elements," i.e., elements heavier than uranium (atomic number 92). First made was neptunium (No. 93), which McMillan named after the planet just outside Uranus. Neptunium turns spontaneously into plutonium (No. 94), used in atom bombs. The other transuranian elements, also produced for the first time at Berkeley: americium (No. 95), curium (No. 96), berkelium (No. 97) and californium...
...rocketing boys & girls of the comics and science fiction are very much at home in space. They flit from planet to planet as easily and comfortably as a housewife going to the supermarket. The truth about space is different, and no one knows it better than the high-flying sci entists and engineers. Last week the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine held a symposium at San Antonio on the dan gers that will crowd around explorers of the aeropause...
...floor were putting the finishing touches on a 30-ft. space ship, outfitted with an "artificial gravity generator," a "viewport" (windshield), "radar bridge" and "teleceiver." As every Space Cadet knows, these marvels enable the pilot to see as well as talk ship-to-ship, ship-to-earth, ship-to-planet. Across the street in Macy's toy department, the normal sales staff was boosted from 200 to 1,000. In Atlanta, Rich's department gave its toy department 15% more space than last year, and put in a special department just to sell doll clothes...