Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile lives only for its nose. Once shot into space, the nose, with its payload of thermonuclear explosive, speeds on alone, and its problem becomes re-entry into the atmosphere. U.S. missilemen need nose cones that will not burn up from friction as they plummet earthward in a long arc at up to 16,000 m.p.h...
...Beechcraft Bonanza off a Honolulu airport on a nonstop flight that ended 4,957 miles away in New Jersey. Eying the light plane's performance, Boling resolved some day to better the mark. Last week he did. Flying an orange Bonanza from Manila, Pat Boling took a broad arc over the Pacific, finally came in for a landing in Pendleton, Ore. after flying alone for 6,890 miles and 46 hours...
Perhaps too facile, he has whisked off a skyscraper design overnight, took only 15 days to plan Caracas' Museum of Modern Art, a pyramid that will rest upside down atop Bello Monte mountain. "I study the problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder...
...earth has been left behind, and the ship is moving essentially in gravity-free space, it will need an engine that can exert a small thrust for a long time. Several nuclear systems look good for this purpose. A small stream of propellant could be heated by an electric arc, shooting out of the nozzle at very great speed. Or the propellant could be ionized and shot away from the rocket by electrical repulsion. The thrust of this system would be extremely low, but it would use little material. Ten Ibs. of thrust working for 1.5 years would speed...
...film also shows a Tarzan who has evolved in a wide arc from the original character of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, first played on the screen by the late Elmo Lincoln in 1918. Compared to Elmo, who was built like a water tower and once -on the set-killed a lion that tried to rough him up, the Tarzans of mid-century are sissies. Tarzan's dialogue, over the years, has improved from a simple grunt to almost literate palaver...