Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsreel audiences in Russia, and seen for the first time in the U.S. this week. Produced under the direction of Yurie Khlebtsevich, chairman of a Soviet technical committee working on radio and television guidance of rockets, the movie depicts the use of an unmanned baby tank, crammed with scientific instruments, for the exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth's atmosphere by a winged, rocket-driven "spaceship." Once in an orbit similar...
...Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road ("Lord, I'm gettin' mighty weary of this cotton pickin' load"). With the assured grace of a precision instrument, Crooner Frank Sinatra was making a TV comeback (after a flop in 1952) with his own show and the fattest contract in show business. For 13 half-hour musicals, two one-hour spectaculars, 23 half-hour dramas, ABC and Chesterfield have also guaranteed Frankie complete jurisdiction over his material. Frankie...
...keynote to the President's press conference was his insistence that the satellite is a scientific, not a defense, instrument (see box, opposite). On that basis, the U.S. was already committed to putting some $110 million into a U.S. moon. But basic missile research and development would continue to get priority over satellite work in U.S. defense spending. It was in this sense that President Eisenhower said flatly: "So far as the satellite itself is concerned, that does not raise my apprehensions, not one iota...
...corridor, about two-thirds to the south side of the building, will divide the laboratories from the professors' studies, instrument rooms, and small labs...
...Discontents, a rambling, chatty discourse on everything from man's place in the universe to the fear of losing love, and Moses and Monotheism. Freud was convinced that Moses was no Jew, but a highborn Egyptian who chose the Jews (hence "the chosen people") as the instrument for perpetuating Akhnaton's monotheism, which had just been swept out of Egypt in a religious counterrevolution. Freud, who regarded religion as a "universal obsessional neurosis," was at pains to explain the acceptance of Moses and of his one God in terms of the "father figure." Comments Author Jones: "Freud...