Word: heat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention last May to paper over the long, debilitating feud between Taft and Eisenhower factions, settled on a compromise candidate named Roland J. Steinle. 62, a former state supreme court justice who had been out of politics for years and had few enemies. But in the campaign's heat Steinle turned out to be 1) ineffective on the stump; 2) too conservative for some Ikemen; 3) too little known statewide, even though his Catholicism might pick up votes in Polish wards of Milwaukee. Prognosis: hardworking, handshaking Proxmire should hold off the G.O.P. challenge on a reduced majority...
Less than two years after developing its Pyroceram nose cones for guided missiles, Corning Glass Works put on sale in Manhattan department stores the first consumer products of its new heat-resistant glass, which looks like china. The products: a 10-in. skillet and three sizes (1 qt., 1½ qt. and 1¾ qt.) of covered casserole dishes, priced from $5.95 to $12.95. Guaranteed to go from freezer to red-hot burner without cracking, the skillet comes with a removable handle, brass-plated wire cradle and cover so it can be used to serve from at the table...
Glowing Wings. But soaring 100 miles above the earth is only a first step. Greater peril comes when the pilot starts down through the atmosphere to land. To offset the ferocious heat generated by the air's friction, the X-15's skin is made of Inconel X, a heat-resisting alloy that keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure...
...drops back into the atmosphere, the pilot must match his speed to the density of the air. As the air grows thicker at lower altitudes, he must slow down to keep the heat of friction from softening his wings. If he comes too close to the danger point, he will veer upward into thinner air to let his plane cool off. Slowed down and cooled off, the X-15 can then glide to the ground, landing on a pair of nosewheels and two skids near the tail...
...issue that has aroused the most heat is the question of what issues to discuss. Rockefeller wants to debate only state issues; Harriman calls this a new form of isolationism; so the candidates debate nothing. The one concrete issue that Rockefeller has raised is that of the so-called "economic drift" of the state under the Harriman administration. To this point Harriman has an apparently convincing answer: under Republican Dewey New York dropped from second to seventh in per-capita in come, but in the past three years the state has moved back up to third place...