Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smaller satellite got so emotional that he was almost fired to keep the peace. Pickering never lost his composure. "I had to establish," he says in measured tones, "that the project could get the necessary support from the laboratory, and that we could redesign the spacecraft down to what Atlas-Agena could carry. We finally decided that we could go gung-ho for Venus. When all this looked as if it were making sense, NASA said. 'Charge...
Died. Lee Oscar Lawrie, 85, German-born U.S. sculptor best known for his huge bronze Atlas in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...
...books and literature reverberate with the names of soldier-heroes and the battlefields on which they won and held an empire: Omdurman and Lucknow, Quebec, Khartoum, Mafeking. In every corner of their island, statues and street names still celebrate a glory that has passed. "You used to open the atlas," muses a Manchester businessman, "and half the world was red. Now Britain is just a little red speck off the coast of Europe...
...Memphis, $375,000; Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $350,000; Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Tuckahoe, N.Y., $329,058; Ames Co. Inc., Elkhart, Ind., $302,162; Baxter Laboratories Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., $208,078; Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, $178,980; Kendall Co., Boston, $159,323; Richardson-Merrill, Greensboro, N.C., $155,000; Atlas Chemical Industry, Wilmington, $149,282; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J., $137,260. Under...
...Strategic Air Command last week took control of a new squadron of twelve Atlas missiles at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upstate New York-bringing to 200 the total of U.S. combat-ready intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nuclear-tipped arsenal includes 126 liquid-fueled Atlases; 54 Titans, a bigger and heavier liquid-fueled missile; and 20 quick-firing, solid-fueled Minutemen. Each has a range of 6,000 miles or more, and each is zeroed in on an assigned target in the Soviet Union. The present total is at least twice the estimated strength of the Russian missile force...