Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Sputniks, Russia took man into a new era of space, and with its advances in the art of missilery, posed the U.S. with the most dramatic military threat it had ever faced. And with the Vanguard's witlessly ballyhooed crash at Cape Canaveral went the U.S.'s long-held tenet that anything Communism's driven men could do, free men could do better. Whatever the future might bring, in 1957 the U.S. had been challenged and bested in the very area of technological achievement that had made it the world's greatest power...
With shock wave, fiery blast and departing roar, the U.S. last week sent three missiles streaming into the Atlantic skies from Florida, and marked the most important week of U.S. missile firing to date. From the hot launching pads at Cape Canaveral Test Center shot the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, the Army's counterpart Jupiter and-successfully for the first time-the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas...
Twice before, "Big Annie"-as her caretakers called the Atlas-had had to be blown up just after launching. Since then the Russians had shot two Sputniks aloft, indicating a long Red stride in intercontinental missilery. As the crews at Cape Canaveral got Big Annie III ready for her try last week, they worked coolly, deliberately, as though they were determined not to think of the stakes. But they knew all right, and so did the whole base, as the red-eyed crewmen plodded home to snatch a sandwich and a couple of hours of sleep and then head back...
BISHOP JOHN KODWO AMISSAH, of the Cape Coast archdiocese in Ghana, was consecrated last June at the age of 35, less than eight years after he became a priest, and now serves as auxiliary to white Archbishop William Thomas Porter, 70. The archdiocese numbers 157,293 Roman Catholics, 27,158 taking instruction, and includes 82 priests (64 white, 18 Negro), with 40 parishes, three secondary schools, three teacher-training colleges, five hospitals and 329 primary schools. Bishop Amissah's thesis at St. Peter's College in Rome was on a comparison between Catholic canon law and native customs...
...covered the launching gave any strong warning to editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding in the infinitely complex mechanics of missilery. In any event, since word of a scheduled firing spreads fast on the missile beat-postponement of last week's scheduled Atlas test was known to the press within a few hours-most of the newsmen who blanketed...