Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's basic problem in designing the celebrated Jupiter-C missile nose cone was to make it tough enough so that it would not burn up like a meteor when it re-entered the atmosphere from more than 400 miles up. But a secondary problem, in the day of interservice rivalry, was to bring it back alive to prove that the Army had overcome a good portion, at least, of the re-entry problems.* To solve the homecoming problem, the Army disclosed last week, the nose cone displayed practically every type of electronic legerdemain except playing The Star-Spangled...
...dead, and the Russians are concentrating on optical observation. The life of Sputnik I, say the Russians, should be about three months; thus the satellite should stay aloft until the new year. Its carrier rocket, which has more air drag, will spiral down and burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle the earth considerably longer than Sputnik...
What fuels do the Russians burn to make their Sputniks fly so fast? Wild rumors last week gave them credit for wonder-working superfuels. Not necessarily. Conventional rocket fuels such as kerosene and liquid oxygen, if skillfully used, could do the job. But superfuels are coming along-in both the U.S. and Russia...
...rapidly. This rules out promising materials, e.g., boron itself and many of its compounds, that are not liquid at ordinary temperatures. One way around this difficulty is to grind them finely and mix them with a liquid carrier to form a paintlike slurry. The most radical way is to burn them as solids with a solid oxydizer. Through this technique, a long list of new high-energy materials can be used...
...Beat Generation is not without cultural ancestors. In the beginning there was Edna St. Vincent Millay, burning her candle at both ends. And then there was Hemingway and the Lost Generation squirting wine sacks at each other. But beside Kerouac's band, they are all pickers. They were never "beatifically beat," as are On the Road's "... mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding...