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...14th Amendment guarantees him the right to occasional bouts with his white brothers. ¶ In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the New York Knickerbockers got the professional basketball season off to a fast and early start. The deft passing of Dick McGuire and the deadly shooting of Carl Braun added up to a surprising victory over the championship Minneapolis Lakers...
...early 1930s, a group of young Germans led by Wernher von Braun were playing with rockets on the outskirts of Berlin. Their object: to fly to the moon...
...Little & Late. Hitler at last gave the V-2s the highest priority, but Dornberger's troubles were not over. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, kept sniffing around Peenemünde. His men arrested Von Braun and two colleagues because they had been heard to remark that they were still interested in space flight. Spies were everywhere; Nazi favorites were plotting. The V-2s were forced into production while they were no more than delicate laboratory models. Many of them failed disastrously. When the first V-2s reached England in September 1944, they were too late to have...
...project of Space-Flight Prophet Wernher von Braun and his disciples is the creation of an artificial satellite revolving in an orbit 1,000 miles above the earth. Such a satellite would circle the globe every two hours, peeking behind all frontiers. If the nation that operated the satellite felt a need for military action, Von Braun's followers say, it could pulverize any other nation with atom-armed guided missiles shot down from space...
Like Morrison, dozens of other U.S. builders are working around the globe. From the West Coast, Alhambra, Calif.'s C. F. Braun & Co. has gone to Australia to build a $25 million refinery for Standard-Vacuum Refining Co.; the Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Los Angeles has five projects abuilding in Japan, three in India, three more in Turkey and Iran, others in Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side...