Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Air Force launched Discoverer V, putting a ton of hardware into orbit, including the 1,700-lb. second-stage rocket and a 300-lb. instrument package-a new record for U.S. satellite payloads (but still far behind Russia's 2,134-lb. Sputnik III). After 17 trips through its polar orbit, retrorockets were to plunge Discoverer V back into the atmosphere, and C-119 transport planes-trailing trapezelike devices to snare the descending parachute-were waiting 700 miles southwest of Hawaii. But Discoverer V was never heard from again. The Air...
...Biggest failure of the week was the Air Force's attempted firing of its 5,500-mile ICBM Titan. For the U.S.'s potentially most lethal ICBM, it was the first test for the full two-stage assembly. But the missile never left the ground, disintegrated in an explosion on the launching...
...resiliences of high-tempered steels and flexible plastics. He raises simple abstract constructions of such materials on pedestals containing silent motor-vibrators. At a taped signal, the motors go into action, moving first slowly, then faster in a carefully calculated cycle, and the sculptures begin taking shape upon the air...
...cool you!" The voice is sad and soft behind real tears as the lights go down: "Only yesterday, when the world was young . . ." Whatever the tempo, Tin-Pan or torchy, the songs of Felicia Sanders throb with a strange, sinewy vitality in the basement's air-cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence of rapt attention. The clink of glasses stops, the convivial chatter dies and, for a little while, Greenwich Village's Bon Soir nightclub belongs...
...SERVICE by United Air Lines, nonstop New York-San Francisco, will begin on Sept. 18. United will start New York and Chicago service to West Coast in October...