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...Like a high-strung thoroughbred finally cured of its jitters, the much-criticized Vanguard ran a perfect race last week. Of seven earlier Vanguard firings, six had been failures, and the seventh put only a grapefruit-sized, 3.25-lb. satellite in orbit. Last week's shot was perfect. All three stages of the 72-ft., pencil-slim rocket fired without a hitch. The satellite, which had the full design weight of 21.5 Ibs., settled into an orbit slightly higher than had been expected. Its perigee (lowest point) is 347 miles above the earth; its apogee (highest point...
Hero Owen Jedd Wiley is a Vermont-born Marine lieutenant stationed in Haiti during the early '30s. He smokes little and drinks less; the tropics wear but do not beat him. On Stateside leave, he meets a Smith girl named Isabel Bogardus, and highbred, high-strung Isabel shocks Owen by bedding down with him amidst the ancestral stones of an old cemetery. They return to Haiti man and wife...
...Emilie du Chatelet was soft-eyed, handsome, highly sexed-and the mother of three children. She had a fluent knowledge of Latin, Italian and English -not Spanish, because someone had told her that "the only book in that language was frivolous," i.e., Don Quixote. Her scientific and mathematical knowledge surpassed Voltaire's. Together, they were destined to change intellectual history, Voltaire by championing Newton in France, Emilie by helping to open the border to the philosophy of Germany's Leibnitz. Voltaire was high-strung, always ailing, always in hot water with the authorities; Emilie was "strong...
Married. Sammy Davis Jr., 32, high-strung, Harlem-born actor-singer-dancer (Mr. Wonderful); and Singer Loray White, 23; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
...bulky director of the Worcester Art Museum, longtime (1940-55) policy-toppling director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than $62 million in 1954), doubled...