Word: launcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich, Marx has a "Space Satellite Launcher" ($3) that propels the plastic satellite skyward by a hand-crank mechanism; Irwin Corp. a "Skeet Shoot" ($4) that throws targets into the air, for a rifle loaded with darts; and Carrom Industries, a boxing game ($6.95) in which players manipulate toy fighters until the knockout. Of the traditional dolls, stuffed animals, soldiers, and games, there are hundreds of new variations. Madame Alexander has a new doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating...
...nose of the NACA's rocket contains instruments and telemetering equipment for transmitting data to earth. Although it is not in the class of Project Vanguard's satellite launcher, which must move at 18,000 m.p.h. 300 miles above the earth, the four-stage bird speeds almost as fast as the satellite during critical portions of its flight in comparatively dense air. Study of its behavior will help the satellite's designers...
...week the men of the 101st-many of them veterans of the World War II outfit-turned out with a roar to show off their skills. The high point of the day was the firing of an Honest John rocket, which set off a simulated atomic blast. The rocket launcher, however, was borrowed; a fact which symptomized one of the joist's current ills. It has yet to get much of its equipment...
Bulwark of the U.S. team, despite a month-long layoff with a strained shoulder muscle, was Tony Trabert. He had won 16 of his last 18 tournaments, including the Wimbledon and French championships. At first it seemed that he might beat cocky, towheaded Lew Hoad, Australia's rocket-launcher. He took the first set, 6-4. Then Hoad, in his finest form in two years, began slamming out a cannonball serve that Trabert could not match or break. Bothered by a blister on his racket hand, Trabert weakened in the third set, dropped five straight games. In the fourth...
...result is a bewildering jumble of new forms and shapes-forged, soldered, puddled, riven and wrought-that can look as crude as slagheap clinkers, as ethereal as tomorrow's TV aerials or as menacing as the latest rocket launcher...