Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...K is for Kistiakowsky, a handy man with chemicals, who whipped up an "Aunt Jemima" cake mix that would blow its victim right out of this world, will soon sit in the White House. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
...easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima," the powder could be transported as flour or dough, even baked and carried around in cake and cookie form. To prove that it was not toxic, K. assembled skeptical military officials, baked his "Aunt Jemima," finished with a flourish by eating one of his small cakes...
...states, Hawaii seems determined to send to Washington as its first Senators two of the oldest political faces in the land of the luau. Indeed, last week Hawaiian Democrats pressured out of the June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones...
...cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...