Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a launching pad at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base last week, a 78-ft., two-stage Discoverer rocket soared skyward into a fine north-south polar orbit. The following afternoon, on its 17th orbit, if things went according to plan, a remote-control signal would eject the 310-lb. payload from Discoverer VIII's orbiting second-stage rocket, and the capsule would fall earthward, slowed by a 30-ft.-wide parachute...
...hero worship that was once reserved for the touchdown-happy backs. In Detroit, Joe Schmidt can do nothing wrong, although his Lions (2-6-1) can do nothing right. In San Francisco, small boys speak in awe of the thundering tackles of Jerry Tubbs. At a banquet in California, Les Richter of the Los Angeles Rams diagramed defenses for a solid hour and enthralled U.C.L.A. Physicist Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the U.S. International Geophysical Year Committee...
...were worried over how and by whom he would be paid while on the job. Reason: at Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's urging, Critchfield was to be a "WOC," serve "without compensation" from the U.S. and keep on drawing his pay of about $40,000 a year from California's missile-making Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp...
...Washington (8-1)-moved closer to the Rose Bowl by shutting out California...
...Southern California (8-0)-beat Baylor, 17-8, as its massive line, anchored by End Marlin and Guard Mike McKeever (TIME, Oct. 26), gave up only three yards on the ground...