Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson last week told newsmen that he was working as hard as he ever had in his life on the selection of a successor to Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who resigned, umbrellaless, under an active cloud (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.). The new man, said Wilson, had to have "financial and mechanical experience." He had to be tightlipped, noncontroversial and acceptable to the Senate; and it would help if he knew something about politics, the Pentagon, the aerial weapons of the future, and had "sat next...
Back to Business Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott insisted two weeks ago that he had "no more idea than a jackrabbit" of resigning, despite the disclosures about his part-time business activities (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) After President Eisenhower read the 471-page Senate subcommittee hearings on Talbott, the Secretary resigned and the President promptly accepted his resignation, saying that it was the "right" thing...
...welded sculpture is also finding new customers. It is cheaper than cast works, and, by its nature, each object is unique. Collectors are now buying it to decorate Texas and Hollywood patios and Manhattan rooftops. Topflight modern architects-Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, et al.-are using it to decorate new library facades, chapels, and new college buildings...
Behind the wall of secrecy that surrounds the guided-missile program, rockets have been developing rapidly (TIME, May 30 et seq.). Scientists in a position to know believe that some of them are powerful enough to raise an object weighing 50 to 100 Ibs. above most of the atmosphere (about 200 miles up) and set it revolving around the earth at 18,000 m.p.h. Supported by this speed, it will not fall, any more than the moon does. It will circle the earth every 90 minutes, until the slight resistance of the fringe of the atmosphere makes it slow down...
Bayreuth's Wagner. By comparison with Salzburg's blaze, Bayreuth was authoritative but monochromatic. The latest style for Wagnerian opera, as set by the composer's grandsons Wieland and Wolf gang Wagner (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951, et seq. features a stage in semidarkness, moonlit landscapes, symmetrical crowd scenes and stark emphasis on the polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying...