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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German rocket bug, most of them flirting dangerously with destruction as they pursued their untried hobby. Von Braun joined a small group firing rockets from an abandoned ammunition dump in suburban Berlin. When he left for a term at Zurich's Institute of Technology, he continued his experiments, built a contraption that spun mice in simulation of rocket takeoffs. Afterward, his roommate, an American medical student, dissected the mice, announced to Von Braun that the high acceleration caused cerebral hemorrhages. Their landlady had another kind of announcement: any more mouse blood on her walls, and the young scientists would...
Nearly a quarter of a century had passed since a new office building rose in Chicago's Loop, where the first skyscraper* was built 72 years ago. This week, amid the Loop's smoke-stained, weather-worn monuments to another era, the Inland Steel Co. dedicated a crisp, tall, gleaming home office that goes a step or two ahead of almost every other office building...
...half-hour show on ABC, Caesar crammed two sketches: one, too long, cast him and Imogene as a pair of chronic not-marrieds who were flung at each other by well-meaning friends; the other, too short, was a spoof on the current rash of TV shows built around singers on stools. Taking Frank Sinatra as his chief butt, Caesar prattled: "The whole show is live except me. I'm on film. And now from my latest album, Songs to Make Money By, here's a swingin' tune, Love Is a Gasser." By coincidence...
...nuclear power plant (180,000 kw.) abuilding for Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co.; costs already exceed that by an estimated $20 million. By the time it is finished, G.E. will be $80 million in the hole on its nuclear program, including a smaller 5,000-kw. plant it built at Pleasanton, Calif, to get experience. G.E., like the others, thinks that if it could build three big plants in a row, it could learn enough to produce competitive power. But G.E. has no plans at the moment. As one reactor builder says: "Private industry has found that there...
...large nuclear power plant completed to date, the 60,000-kw. station built by Westinghouse Electric Corp. for AEC and the Duquesne Light Co. of Shippingport, Pa. (TIME, Nov. 25), is a major milestone for the U.S. -and a perfect example of the cost problem. Westinghouse's original cost estimate was $37.8 million. The plant will ultimately cost about $100 million. The Government paid 95% of the bill to get it operating; the power produced is so expensive that AEC also pays a heavy subsidy to make it marketable...