Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the Western Development Division, a $3 billion Air Force project for developing, testing and possibly operating the H-bomb-carrying, 5,000-mile ICBM. Consequently, the experts took notice last week when Ben Schriever made a progress report to a hard-boiled symposium of astronautics scientists in San Diego (see SCIENCE). The report: since 1954, when the U.S. stepped up its ICBM program, it has come such a "long way in the development of space technology" that the conquest of outer space appears right around the corner-and that corner must soon be turned...
Last week some 500 scientists, encouraged by this growing fund of information, gathered in San Diego at a symposium held by the Air Force and Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. to talk in down-to-earth terms about the practical problems of converting space theory into space hardware. Much of the conference was classified, but two projects, openly described, show how science is simulating space conditions on earth...
Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...world in on the inspiration he experienced during his ten-month sojourn in the Soviet and satellites last year, Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera last week turned his own plush Mexico City gallery over to a show of his latest works: 150 oils, watercolors and drawings, all of people and places behind the Iron Curtain...
...meat. They were raised in large numbers, and a famous dog market near Mexico City sold as many as 400 a week. The Spanish clergy tried to suppress this traffic, with only gradual success. For many years the Spanish, too. appreciated roast Xolo. Mexico's famed painter Diego Rivera, who owns 45 hairless dogs, says he has eaten them and found them delicious...