Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heaven and earth he's wearing for his summer clothes...
...showcase for avant-garde painting and sculpture, slapped a court complaint on outspoken A. & P. Millionheir Huntington Hartford, who once wrote of the modern artist: "Engrossed with evil, [he] has wandered off to some streamlined inferno in which he has burned in effigy the normal people of the earth." Purpose of the complaint: to enjoin Hartford from dubbing his proposed $2,000,000 museum on Columbus Circle "The Gallery of Modern...
...spreading oak of a lad (204 lbs., 6 ft. ½ in.), Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...amounts of fuel into the combustion chamber. They ignite when they mingle. So far, the system has been tested only in an experimental rocket engine on the ground. But if it can be developed, the Navy's feed mechanism could be made to obey radioed instructions from the earth, deliver thrusts to a space satellite varying from a massive push to the most delicate of nudges...
...space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule. In Cook's sprawling research labs, another team of engineers is working with its big cobalt 60 facility, testing for lubricating oils and ceramics that will withstand the heat and radiation produced by atomic aircraft. One of Cook's biggest jobs...