Word: cones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen and monitored by a U.S. Navy plane crew, proved that the Russian ICBM is indeed very sophisticated. As the missile bore in at a re-entry angle of 18° (which indicated that the Soviets fired at maximum range), a capsulelike object was detached from the nose cone and dipped into the ocean. Both hit near the middle of a triangle of three Soviet ships, each three to five miles apart. Red sailors fished out the instrument-crammed capsule, turned tail for Soviet ports...
...conventional rocket engine, fuel is burned in a roughly spherical combustion chamber, and turns into hot, high-pressure gas. To keep the gas from expanding wastefully in all directions as it leaves the nozzle, it is channeled into a tail cone where its pressure is efficiently converted into thrust as it expands (see diagram). The cone should be long enough to reduce the pressure of the gas to that of the surrounding atmosphere. Thus rockets intended to work at very high altitudes must have extra-long tail cones...
General Electric, Aerojet-General, Pratt & Whitney and Rocketdyne are all working on plug nozzles. Tests have been promising, and rocket men predict that for many applications the plugs will eventually supersede the graceful tail-cone engine...
...advertising, the Federal Trade Commission last week gave new teeth to an old saw: things are rarely what they seem. The FTC filed complaints against four major national advertisers (Standard Brands, Colgate-Palmolive, Alcoa and Lever Bros.), three advertising agencies (Manhattan's Ted Bates & Co. and Foote, Cone & Belding, and Pittsburgh's Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove), and Foote, Cone's Vice President William H. Bambric. The charge: trickery designed to fool the TV viewer...
...world and the companies involved reacted as if the FTC had attacked mother and apple pie. Fairfax Cone, who had a hand in creating the Pepsodent commercial and who sternly told admen three weeks ago to clean up "dishonest advertising," had a novel retort: "To me it wasn't wrong, and I think I have as high ideals as anybody around. I believe in the truth." Colgate-Palmolive announced that its shaving commercial was only "a technique used to overcome photographic difficulties," and that "sandpaper can be shaved." Standard declared that "the presence of the gems in Blue Bonnet...