Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lacking either a Devereux or Edwardian subtlety, youngsters at San Diego high and junior high schools have found a way to be highly explicit. A girl arranges the sword-shaped pins on her cardigan in a variety of patterns: 1) horizontally parallel (come on, she's unattached); 2) parallel, but at an angle (she has a boy friend, but he's not a steady); 3) swords in a V (she's interested in going steady); 4) crossed swords (poison, she's got a steady); and 5) single vertical sword (get lost, she's married...
...status of space flight, formerly made suspect by visionaries and fiction writers, was not defined in public until the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. held its Astronautics Symposium at San Diego (TIME, March 4). Planned as a small confab of space-minded missile men, the conference ballooned into a crammed mass meeting of engineers and scientists representing airplane, electronic and instrument companies as well as universities and all three armed services. A few years ago most of these hardheaded characters would not have attended a space-flight meeting except incognito. Now they are eager...
Dollars for Space. The change in their attitude was caused by Government money tossed into guided missiles in billion-dollar chunks. Everyone at the San Diego meeting realized that missiles will soon replace aircraft as prime consumers of taxpayers' funds. For forward-looking space-flight workers that is already history. Next step beyond missiles is true space navigation, and no manufacturer who wants to stay on the Government's contract list can afford to neglect it. So practically every outfit even remotely connected with aircraft or missiles was represented at San Diego, and trying hard to look...
...crews indicates that manned space vehicles are part of its long-range thinking. Perhaps manned satellites, armed with defensive weapons, will come first, with small landing tenders to carry the men back to earth after their tours of duty. There was some discussion of this subject at the San Diego conference, and most authorities seemed to believe that bringing men back uncooked through the atmosphere is not forbiddingly difficult. Finding them when they land on the broad face of the earth may prove harder...
...Question ... In San Diego, arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Betty Graydon on a dope-smuggling charge. David Hedrick was asked what he did for a living, replied: "Well, ma'am, lately I've been forging checks...