Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racing to be first to try the next logical step into space: a shot at the moon. By later summer the Army will fire from Cape Canaveral a Jupiter-C or hopped-up Jupiter that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter of weeks will be a Thor-Vanguard hybrid similar...
...Councilman and Mayor (1955-57) Taft mailed 3,000 vote-seeking letters to city Republicans. Inevitably, the feud spread beyond Cincinnati. Anti-organization Republicans have taken up pens, are boosting Charlie and the Taft name by mail in Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and other big vote centers. They do not expect to win the nomination, but a big Taft vote could hurt O'Neill's prestige in the general election...
...Austin and Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should be so gloomy. There are a lot of things to be cheerful about...
HUGE NAVY ORDERS are coming for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. In hot race, it won Navy's nod to be prime land-based antisubmarine plane in jet age. Insiders expect Navy to buy some 100 Electras for about $4,000,000 each over next few years, figure Navy will eventually replace all its 500 Lockheed Neptune antisub fighters with Electras...
...Freshman heavyweight crew will also be travelling to Princeton. Judging from their past performance, Coach Bill Leavitt doesn't expect that Princeton, M.I.T. or Rutgers will offer strong opposition to the Crimson...