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...service has ranged from staff posts to the front line, and his chestful of decorations includes France's Croix de guerre, Russia's Order of the Fatherland, and South Korea's Military Order of Taeguk, as well as the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Harkins seldom shouts. If an officer does not measure up, he is quietly shipped out. One colonel remembers that the worst dressing-down he ever received was when Harkins looked him in the eye and said coldly: "You didn't do your...
...varsity track team is now the Greater Boston Intercollegiate champion. Yesterday the runners contributed a cluster of thirds, fourths, and fifths, but the first point they scored was enough to settle the issue...
Success & Statistics. Saturn, the largest of U.S. missiles now ready for flight, and the one officially designated to take U.S. astronauts on their first flight as far out as the moon, passed its second test in a row with a perfect score. Its cluster of eight liquid-fuel engines lifted the 20-story, 927,000-lb. missile off the launch pad in a spectacular display of steam and ear-shattering sound. And since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored...
...back to them. Said a proud program officer: "One success may be a miracle, but with two we start building statistics." In the course of eight future statistic-building tests scheduled to be finished by 1964, Saturn will acquire a live second stage, which will be powered by a cluster of six 15,000-lb.-thrust engines nourished by liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Scientists figure that Saturn eventually will be able to heave more than 200,000 lbs. into orbit around the earth, or send an 80,000-lb. payload to outer space. This is far more weight than...
...more than 50 years, the Rumanian-born Sculptor Constantin Brancusi hvec in Paris-and for more than 50 years, Paris studiously ignored him. He lived in a studio-shack among a cluster of crumbling shanties in the Impasse Ronsin, a coal-begrimed dead-end street in Mont parnasse inhabited by struggling artists...