Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanding book publishing. Only last year, after publishing a number of individual books. TIME Inc. established its own book division, with Jerome Hardy as publisher and Norman Ross as editor. In 1961 the new division published 13 titles and sold 3,400,000 copies, including the LIFE Pictorial Atlas and LIFE'S World and Nature libraries series. The division's most ambitious future project is a six-volume history...
Centaur, the nation's first missile to use highenergy, liquid-hydrogen fuel, flunked its first flight test when its Atlas booster shut down seconds after ignition. But by week's end, the trend toward repeated failure was reversed as the skies were peppered with missiles. A second Pershing flew properly. The first International Satellite-a joint effort by the U.S. and Great Britain-was successfully nudged into orbit by a Thor-Delta rocket to gather data on cosmic radiation. A smaller Nike-Cajun was shot 75 miles high in another ionosphere-probing experiment. The Air Force fired...
...being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...
...tested most of the operational missile-age hardware of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and is increasingly a testing ground for NASA. The first operationally fired Thor was launched from Vandenberg, and so was the first Atlas to be rocketed across the Pacific. The Discoverer series was launched into polar orbit, and the 1960 recovery of the gold-plated capsule of Discoverer XIII off Hawaii marked the first time an American object had been retrieved from orbit in space...
...Deke") Slayton blasted off last week with the roar of a soaring Atlas. ''We have only begun to fight," he wrote to the chamber of commerce of his home town, Sparta, Wis. ''We have lost a skirmish, but the battle is not yet over...