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...Vega and Centaur, both based on Atlas, but with two additional stages. Vega has a section of the Vanguard for its second stage. Centaur's second stage will burn hydrogen, whose high energy, according to NASA's Dr. Abe Silverstein, "will greatly increase our capability to send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket...
Anyone who takes Ovid for a gentle poet of the hearth will do a double take when he comes to the sadistic eye-gouging battles of the centaurs. One centaur swings a chandelier like an axe and fells another...
...model, under the delusion that he is a centaur, is planning to tour the Parthenon. The suitcase contains a pocket model of the edifice, but this is no substitute for Keats' "Ode to a Grecian...
...increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary Italian sculptor Martini the limbs are almost conical in shape. A more extreme example of this type of form is found in No. 11, "Centaur," which looks like stretched taffy...
...Once, during the production of Fantasia, Walt sat through a screening of the centaur sequence set to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. When it was over he turned to one of his assistants and said earnestly: "Gee! This'll make Beethoven...