Word: inched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home: a $9,000 midnight-blue 1957 Cadillac, equipped with $21,000 worth of special accessories for President Marcos Perez Jimenez. At the push of a button, the 'two leather-upholstered chairs buzz back into a lounging position. In the rear of the front seat are a 17-inch television set, a high-fidelity tape recorder, and a small bar (four glasses, two bottles). A telephone system will permit the President to talk to his aide up front without the chauffeur's listening in, or (by shortwave radio) to the presidential palace and army headquarters. A weapons compartment...
...expense of such caution was added the extra costs of a deliberate slowdown on construction to recheck everything in the process. For example, the 58-ton reactor core was lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock...
Simultaneously, the Defense Department announced plans to build a 65-million-dollar missile site near Cheyenne, Wyo, apparently to launch 5000-mile American intercontinental ballistic missiles when such devices are ready. Dr. John Hagen, director of Project Vanguard, also told reporters that his scientists expect to put a sin-inch test satellite into orbit next month, and to follow it with a fully instrumented, 20-inch sphere in March. Preliminary tests have been successful, Hagen said. "All we have to do now is to set it up and light the fuse," he stated...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--A two-month speedup in the date for launching the first full-fledged U.S. earth satellite was listed as a possibility by the Navy today. A spokesman said that, if the navy is successful with its 6.4-inch, 31/4-pound test satellite next month, the 20-inch sphere carrying complex instruments might be fired into orbit in January rather than March, as originally planned. Vanguard now possesses a higher priority than it did in the past--a development that has just occurred, the Navy man declared...
...platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods in. He plays tennis, fiddles with television (he invented a color TV tube in his garage...