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...Army's basic problem in designing the celebrated Jupiter-C missile nose cone was to make it tough enough so that it would not burn up like a meteor when it re-entered the atmosphere from more than 400 miles up. But a secondary problem, in the day of interservice rivalry, was to bring it back alive to prove that the Army had overcome a good portion, at least, of the re-entry problems.* To solve the homecoming problem, the Army disclosed last week, the nose cone displayed practically every type of electronic legerdemain except playing The Star-Spangled...
...nose cone blazed in last August after a 1,200-mile flight at a speed of more than 9,000 m.p.h., it coolheadedly ejected a parachute to brake its plunge, and popped out a balloon and a letter (later successfully delivered to Army Missileman Major General John B. Medaris). Next it fired off several small bombs just before "impacting" in the water to let the Navy outfield know where to look, then dangled flags and a flashing beacon above its watery resting place. As a broadcasting station, it popped out antennas, began "beeping" out its location. Then, for good measure...
...President ticked off the list of new U.S. weapons: missiles of all shapes and sizes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.* The jewel of his collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile...
...atmosphere was much the same when the Kennedy nose cone landed safely amid 4,000 mobbing students at the University of Kansas, and again before the party loyal at a Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Oklahoma City (where he stood backstage with Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, listening to the President's science talk on a transistor radio, hurriedly made notes and peppered Ike anew), still again before a national meeting of Young Democrats in Reno...
Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, and doctors later thought it was man's third or inner eye. The pineal (from the Latin word for pine cone, which it resembles in shape) is a small gland attached to the midbrain...