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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to Earth. The passion for missilery has brought the Army the U.S.'s best arsenal of operational tactical missiles (Redstone, Corporal, Honest John, Nike, etc.), and the Huntsville Arsenal's intermediate-range Jupiter turned out to be the first U.S. missile to launch a satellite in the embarrassing days after Sputnik I. But the high cost of shooting minds and money on Big Space worried Army thinkers who were certain that hard ground-war planning and weaponry had been neglected in the process. The Army has yet to replace the heavy, obsolete M-1 rifle with...
...announcement caused an embarrassed flurry in high Washington circles. Van Allen learned that, at the suggestion of Physicist Nicholas Christofilos of Livermore Laboratory, the Department of Defense was planning to launch Project Argus, in which three atom bombs would be rocketed above the atmosphere and exploded (TIME, March 30). The high-speed electrons released were expected to be shunted around the earth by the earth's magnetic field. Van Allen's discovery that nature had already provided such electrons was a considerable shock...
Last week Dear Liar wound up a highly successful "dry run" of 43 performances, hitting all the stops from Arizona to Florida. Next October, Cornell and Aherne will launch an even more ambitious tour stretching from Boston to Los Angeles. Finally, at year's end, they will arrive on Broadway for four weeks, then hit the road again. Bookings to date: solid through...
Secret of such astonishing returns is Hammer's easy access to cash and quickie production methods. To launch a film, tiny (160 employees) Hammer borrows from Columbia Pictures, which owns 49% of Hammer's studios in Windsor. Production is fast (average: six weeks...
...trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans go sour, he has figured out an alternate road to fame. "If this doesn't work out," he told the well-muscled singer-scholar last week, "I can always launch you in wrestling...