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At the end of the journey, at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., behind high security fences, the ICBM was stripped of its shroud, its garish yellow, black and red skin exposed to the light of day. Soon more than 300 Air Force and Convair scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Bird & the Watcher | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

On the last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Clearly calypso is the biggest thing in the pop-music business since rock 'n' roll started rolling, but why is something of a mystery. Few people can "dance calypso" (there is no formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Calypsomania | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

That afternoon, to savor the exotic culture of the back-country people, the Nixons drove 20 miles from Accra to the hill town of Aburi. The colorfully dressed tribesmen assigned Nixon a mahogany throne. Pat, dandling a native infant on her knee, sat beside him on a smaller throne, watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: With Pat & Dick in Africa | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

"EXOTIC" FUELS for jet planes and missiles will be turned out by new industry. Gallery Chemical Co. started work on a $38 million plant at Muskogee, Okla. to produce "HiCal" for Navy from boron. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. won $33,005,000 Air Force contract for a new high-energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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