item: #1 of 14 id: 43235 author: Sutton, Jeff title: First on the Moon date: None words: 58291 flesch: 88 summary: The only Man. Colonel Crag, Commanding Officer, Pickering Field. It was, Crag thought, applied mathematics. keywords: adam crag; agent; arzachel; aztec; bandit; base; black; body; cabin; chief; colonel; crag; crater; dog; drone; earth; eyes; face; feet; floor; going; good; gotch; head; know; larkwell; life; man; mind; moment; moon; nagel; night; oxygen; plain; prochaska; red; richter; rocket; space; suit; thought; time; voice; way; work cache: 43235.txt plain text: 43235.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 51256 author: Fetler, Andrew title: The Cool War date: None words: 5366 flesch: 89 summary: Professor Kristin saw Pashkov to the door. Pashkov stood looking at Colonel James. keywords: colonel; eyes; face; flier; hospital; james; nadezhda; pashkov; petchareff; zubov cache: 51256.txt plain text: 51256.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 51435 author: Sharkey, Jack title: The Business, As Usual date: None words: 2737 flesch: 87 summary: Precisely, Professor Blake said. Perhaps, the President said weakly, you could explain...? Mister President, said Professor Blake, I am the new Chief of Propaganda for the government. keywords: agent; blake; president; secretary; sir cache: 51435.txt plain text: 51435.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 52574 author: Leinster, Murray title: Third Planet date: None words: 9750 flesch: 85 summary: * * Three Com rockets reached their targets, and Nolan never quite forgave himself for it. Nolan's task became the terribly necessary one of preventing radioactives from moving away from Com territory and into WDA nations--specifically one WDA nation. keywords: ambassador; com; coms; coordinator; earth; lotus; nolan; planet; ship; skipper; war; wda cache: 52574.txt plain text: 52574.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 52784 author: Kolom, Aaron L. title: Heavenly Gifts date: None words: 2433 flesch: 79 summary: The corridor clock showed a few minutes to midnight as Mrs. Frisbee, carrying her mop and pail, entered the control room. Mrs. Frisbee waited patiently and quietly. keywords: frisbee; mrs; president; security; tai cache: 52784.txt plain text: 52784.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 60303 author: Revelle, G. G. title: The Bridge date: None words: 3930 flesch: 95 summary: Captain Alfred Lowary put the yellow paper away quickly when the three junior officers of the Battery reported. Lowary asked. keywords: bridge; captain; kastner; lowary; meyers; tudor cache: 60303.txt plain text: 60303.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 60443 author: Riley, Frank title: Eddie date: None words: 8053 flesch: 76 summary: When John O'Hara Smith phoned that afternoon, the General said promptly: Come on in, Dr. Smith--you've got a deal. _Philip Duncan, the St. Louis attorney and former FBI agent, who wrote the definitive History of Espionage, observes that in all the records dealing with spies and counterspies there is no more significant case than that of Dr. John O'Hara Smith, an electronics research engineer. keywords: amos; busch; cowles; eddie; fbi; general; john; know; o'hara; sanders; security; smith; time; x-15 cache: 60443.txt plain text: 60443.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 60608 author: Thomas, Theodore L. title: Satellite Passage date: None words: 3841 flesch: 89 summary: Morgan said, Do you suppose they'll try anything? Like what? said Kaufman. The top suit was McNary's, and as he worked his way into it, Morgan and Kaufman pressed against the walls to give him room. keywords: kaufman; mcnary; men; morgan; satellite cache: 60608.txt plain text: 60608.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 60654 author: McKenna, Richard title: Love and Moondogs date: None words: 4409 flesch: 92 summary: Martha Stonery in the persian lamb coat paid out the halyard. Walking past the flagpole with her husband, Martha Stonery wore an exalted look. keywords: cherkassov; dog; madame; man; martha; monica; stonery cache: 60654.txt plain text: 60654.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 60671 author: Smith, George H. (George Henry) title: The Last Days of L.A. date: None words: 7708 flesch: 94 summary: A girl in a spangled evening dress, a puffing little man in Bermuda shorts, a woman carrying two children, a man with a golf bag over his shoulder and two men in gray flannel suits followed by a woman in a sack dress that keeps blowing up over her face as she runs. Do you prefer to read about sixteen-year old girls found in love nests with older men? keywords: god; good; head; look; man; people; time; way; woman; world cache: 60671.txt plain text: 60671.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 60737 author: Sharkey, Jack title: To Each His Own date: None words: 4694 flesch: 82 summary: Volval was to go to the Europe-Asia land mass, Gwann to Africa and Antarctica, Klendro to Australia, Jorik to South America, and Drog to Arctica, after first checking over the North American Continent on which they had landed. All set here, called Jorik, coming into Volval's compartment, followed by Gwann. keywords: drog; gwann; jorik; klendro; planet; ship; sir; volval cache: 60737.txt plain text: 60737.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 60922 author: Howard, Hayden title: Murder Beneath the Polar Ice date: None words: 5693 flesch: 81 summary: As an Underwater Demolition Team diver, Barney dated clear back into the Murderer's childhood recollections of World War II, to dim names like Kwajalein and Guam, where former Seabees became combat divers to wire and blast Japanese underwater obstacles and leave welcoming signs for the Marines. This college boy may look like a tennis player, Barney went on as if nothing had happened, but in the water, when Murderer sees something swimming down there, he doesn't care how big it is. keywords: air; barney; commander; hand; ice; minisub; murderer; submarine; water cache: 60922.txt plain text: 60922.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 61242 author: Neville, Kris title: The Winning of the Moon date: None words: 6167 flesch: 91 summary: Major Winship got down and Capt. Wilkins got up. They passed it over to Major Winship, who handed it out to Capt. Wilkins. keywords: capt; chandler; lawler; major; wilkins; winship cache: 61242.txt plain text: 61242.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 61374 author: Grow, Julian F. title: Countdown date: None words: 770 flesch: 83 summary: ] 10 years of uneasy peace, since the Hour of Tragedy ... ten apprehensive, uneasy years pungent with fear, with hatred, distrust ... ten years like ten thousand in the past of man ... Ten thousand years have not fitted man to live with himself; could a single man live with the lives of two billion? keywords: man; masters cache: 61374.txt plain text: 61374.txt