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...m.p.h. needed to orbit. But from downrange tracking stations came a warning that the third stage was climbing at too sharp an angle. After San Diego reported no signal at all, Navy scientists sadly concluded that there was a malfunction in the guidance system, that the rocket failed to keel over into the near-horizontal course required to pop its 21½-lb. satellite into orbit, instead streaked almost straight up for about 2,000 miles and disappeared...
...Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris solid-charge missile (TIME, March...
With a wave of a symbolic radioactive wand. Pat Nixon last week sponsored the keel-laying of the world's first atomic merchantman-and gave the U.S. another leg up in the race to develop peaceful uses for nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes...
...rain-flattened Harlem River. On Carnegie Lake, rowing with five sophomores in the shell, Harvard won the 22nd Compton Cup by 2½ lengths over Princeton in record time, raising the probability that the traditional Yale-Harvard race in New London next month will be a keel-hauler for both crews and will settle the championship of the east...
...fast boost. Most economists agree with harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, who says: "It will be six months before the economy shows much pep." They think the recession will reach bottom soon, may be there even now. Then, say economists, it will rock along on a relatively even keel for six months or more before turning gradually upward in 1958's final quarter...