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Aeronutronic's rocket, named Far Side, lacks the streamlined style of surface-starting rockets. Its first stage is a cluster of four Recruit solid-propellant rocket motors, made by Thiokol Chemical Corp. at Elkton, Md., each with 40,000 lbs. of thrust. Stage Two is a single Recruit. Stage Three is four clustered Arrow II rockets (thrust: 250 lbs. each). The last stage is a single Arrow II which pushes the payload-a tube containing 3.5 lbs. of instruments-to final speed. The whole assembly looks like a graceless bundle of pipes, weighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rocket from Balloon | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Married. Willie Mays, 24, New York Giants star centerfielder, who was ticketed for speeding to the ceremony; and Marghuerite Wendelle, 27, model; he for the first time, she for the second (her first: Bill Kenny, member of the Ink Spots quartet); in Elkton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...Selman Waksman found that his beloved soil bacteria had made something that killed many germs which penicillin did not affect, he took the culture to Rahway. Though half a dozen companies are making streptomycin today, the best guess is that Merck microbes, in their own temple of vats at Elkton, Va., make 40% of the U.S. output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Just as the ushers were getting ready to take up the collection last week at the Pleasant Hill Christian Holiness Church near Elkton, Md., the Rev. Paul Hilbert saw an ominous sight. A man in blackface makeup, carrying a rifle pressed close against his side, slipped through the door and stood waiting at the back of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hand of Fellowship | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...route to Elkton, Md., where the two youths felt the age limit would be sufficiently low to allow their marriage with Joanne Forrester, 13, and her sister Kathleen, 15, they were apprehended by local authorities in Philadelphia and held for the parents' arrival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elopers Return with Parents | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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