Word: fired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the black space shot Pioneer, trailing its dazzling fire, burning first one stage, then the next, then the next, shucking off, in turn, its carefully designed earth clothes. In three minutes it was gone from sight, truly free, reaching up to where no man-made thing had ever touched. And a few moments later, as if responding to the challenge, the waning moon rose out of the Atlantic to the east of the Cape...
...moments later, at the third stage rocket burnout, with Pioneer at maximum velocity, Canaveral scientists quickly computed speed and altitude. Had Pioneer shot up at too vertical an angle and thus been robbed of some of its getaway speed? The computations said yes. The scientists instantly decided to fire all eight vernier rockets in the fourth stage (although these had been held in reserve to deliver only incremental power) in the hope that the speed would increase enough to keep Pioneer aimed at its target. But the added thrust only increased the speed by 160 ft. per second-not enough...
...Angeles Animal Regulation Department set out one day in 1954 to pick up a stray dog. The dog was a fine-looking animal, a sleek, year-old abandoned Doberman pinscher that had been tipping over garbage cans, stealing food, mating with purebred bitches, howling to the whines of fire sirens. He was also fast and smart. Time after time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen...
...this suspense Dulles trod warily between firmness and non-provocation as he sought to keep the cease-fire alive. Specifically last week the U.S.: <¶Suspended U.S. Navy escorting of Chinese Nationalist convoys to Quemoy-a Red China cease-fire condition-figuring that the Chinese Nationalists had all but licked the supply problems (see FOREIGN NEWS) and could well do the job on their...
...easily be seen that the above represents a considerable amount of creative activity over a period of years by a number of people; therefore, the recent fire which did most of its damage in the library assumes serious proportions when one realizes that a substantial percentage of the parts to these arrangements was ruined. By great good fortune most of the scores and some of the masters, which are the first parts taken from the scores and duplicated therefrom, were saved. This means that the creative efforts are still there and we can eventually refurbish our material--however it will...