Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHAN C. BjORK Oslo, Norway
From Erik Bergaust, editor of Missiles and Rockets magazine, came word that two months prior to Charlie Wilson's order the Army had in fact fired the Jupiter. Reported Editor Bergaust: the "Jupiter C," a three-stage rocket test device, whooshed from its Florida launching site in September, streaked an astounding 3,300 miles, reaching an altitude of 680 miles at 15,000 m.p.h.-higher and faster and possibly farther than any missile has ever before flown. Pentagon brass studiously avoided comment about Bergaust's disclosure...
...finding that the money had been offered to Francis Case by attorneys John Neff and Elmer Patman, on behalf of California's Superior Oil Co. Even so, the Justice Department had enough evidence to take Neff, Patman and Superior Oil to court. Last week U.S. District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy read off the sentence: Lawyers Patman and Neff were fined $2,500 each, let off with one-year suspended sentences for failing to register as lobbyists; Superior Oil was fined $10,-ooo for aiding and abetting their failure...
...Kinsey report will go on-and on. Dr. Paul H. Gebhard, an anthropologist and the new executive director of Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research, announced last week that Founder Alfred C. Kinsey had left enough material, compiled over 18 years, to fill 20 volumes beyond the two already published. Expected next year: a book with the tentative and unconsciously funny title, Pregnancy and Its Outcome, which will devote itself to a study of pregnancies (planned and accidental), births (live and still), and abortions (spontaneous and induced...
...drive to move Sargent to Boston closer to the "mother institution" is a part of B.U. President Robert C Case's multi-million-dollar fund drive. Officials of Boston University, however, did not confirm the report that the move across the river would take place...