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...test range of Project Cyclone is a large room lined with tall, many-knobbed cabinets full of electronic apparatus. To simulate a missile, either actual or still-to-be-built, the knobs are set at positions corresponding to all of its characteristics. Some knobs take care of its air drag and the thrust of its rocket motor. Others express the action of its gyroscopic controls. Others account for the motion of its launching site (such as a naval vessel) and of its target (such as an enemy airplane...
...assets off, RFC thought it might get back a little of the $37.5 million it had poured into Lustron. But at week's end Lustron creditors started a fight to get a cut of the assets. It looked as if the squabble over Lustron's bones might drag on a while longer...
...Last Drag. In St. Louis, Motorist Carl Simon finished smoking his cigar, heaved it out the car window, is still looking for two front teeth that came loose from his dental plate and went sailing out with the butt...
Only in spots does the film lag, but then into dull redundancy. Quarrels between the daughter Robinson and her fiance drag out, and are finally paralleled in a ridiculous dispute between the devoted "Mother" and "Father...
...former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...