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...opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers squared off in a brief scrap that brought hundreds of spectators onto the floor. Once that was over, Rodgers picked a new target: Jim Loscutoff, one of the burliest Celtics of all. Fist fights started so often that the league's roly-poly...
...same is true in the field of missiles. A quick check of the Huntsville, Ala. phone book indicates the startling proportion of Germans currently in our employ. The first U.S. satellite, Explorer I, was primarily the work of Werner von Braun. He and his colleagues were originally given something to work with, when the government confiscated 98 German freightcars from the Harz mountains, filled with V-2 parts. We really had no other choice; we didn't know how to build large rockets ourselves then...
...traffic jams to supermarkets. "Europe has become more and more Americanized," he says, "so Europeans are greatly interested in how the U.S. copes with such things." Best known for his probing interviews, he has lugged his tape recorder into sessions with Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Wernher von Braun, a spate of politicians from Nixon to Kennedy...
...winning the award, Whipple joins such previous recipients as Wernher Von Braun (1957), Hermann Oberth (1955), and James A. Van Allen...
...Saturn fired last week developed a thrust of 1,300,000 Ibs. Conceived in 1958 by Army Rocketeer Wernher von Braun. Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons...