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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretary to the officer in charge of the armament test unit of the Navy's Patuxent River station. We were both in the unit at the time they test fired the first rockets mounted on the underside of the wings of Navy planes-we couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot up their own fuselage and the plane came crippling in-a mech had lost a foot and Mac's hand was badly injured. Mac's rueful remark was that...
Neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. has an operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), nor will either have one for two to three years. To date, the Russians are known to have test-fired as many as five ICBMs, have scored at least one hit on a target at a 3,400-mile range; the U.S. has test-fired four models of the Air Force's Convair ICBM Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture...
...Oppenheimer's contributions to the development of the atom bomb are well-known. There is little doubt that he could today render valuable service to America's dismal attempt to find her place in the sun in the Sputnik...
...well-known Italian historian will be a visiting lecturer at the University next semester, Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, announced yesterday...
...varsity, on the other hand, is in worse shape on the goalie problem. Neither Tab Cleary or Harry Pratt has really proven his worth as varsity goalie this year and until one of the two starts performing well, Weiland has to alternate them. It is not even known now who will start tonight, but the best guess would be Pratt, who played against Princeton last Saturday...