Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greeted him with suspicious silence. Among them: Air Force Sergeant Harold French, an old friend of Murphy's, who helped install the Beechcraft's extra gas tanks and was with Murphy at Zahns Airport until noon on the fatal day. Murphy told French about the trip in detail, and French told the FBI ("Gerry said that gasoline would be available to him at Monte Cristi in 5-gal. cans...
Five civilians, along with a detail from the 100-man battery, had already converted three Nikes that day: so routine was their operation that the no-danger yellow light glowed on the battery control panel. The team started its fourth and final conversion shortly after 1 p.m.-began a familiar process in which it removed a warhead, took off the old trigger and its brackets, replaced them with a new trigger and brackets. Somewhere in that process on the fourth missile there was a mishap. Suddenly the missile blew with a roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame...
...Russians have not told the thrust of the first-stage rockets that tossed their Sputniks off the earth, and U.S. authorities do not agree about this detail. Major General John B. Medaris, the Army's missile chief, says that the booster of Sputnik III would need 500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advance Research Projects Agency, thinks that as little as 200,000 Ibs. might be enough. German-born Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, of Bell Aircraft Corp., compromises for 440,000 Ibs. This is not far above the thrust...
...rocks chaser to I'll Cry Tomorrow, may make a lot of moviegoers feel that they have had one too many. The film is based on the best-selling autobiography (TIME, April 15, 1957) in which Actress Diana Barrymore (skillfully assisted by Author Gerold Frank) told in embarrassing detail about her troubles with booze and men. In the movie the booze flows a good deal more freely than the narrative, which reels along like a drunken monologue with a familiar moral: weak people should avoid strong drink...
...encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section and by "sneaking in" a new department of primitive art, Rich has kept the Art Institute growing. But in the end he found himself overwhelmed by administrative detail that "was taking me far away from...