Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of the usual single control stick, the X-15 has three. One is designed to resist the multiplied weight of the pilot's hand or body when he is subjected to his plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space...
Blades Before Razors. RCA Victor last week brought out a magazine-load cartridge that eliminates the shortcomings of spool tape. This month RCA will put on the market a broad library of classical and popular stereo magazine tapes in four sizes and prices, from $4.95 for 22 minutes to $9.95 for 60 minutes. Player sets for the cartridge tapes will come out later because producers, such as Motorola, insisted that RCA first put out enough tapes to make a market. RCA's own magazine-tape playing system will come out by Christmas, retail...
...that school was let out and the new acquisition greeted by thousands of cheering students. Recently Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek turned over the presidential palace to greet another shipment of art, and Brazil's Foreign Minister staged a reception at Itamarati Palace to welcome a load of sculpture...
...uphill campaign for California's governorship weren't enough of a load, U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland had to have a pamphlet too. At least his well-meaning wife, Helen, thought so. So she distributed some 500 copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the hands of millions...
...taste or style, but, providentially enough, they have got Tom Poston to play the bibulating barrister. The idea of watching an actor stumbling and mumbling for nearly two hours is not an intrinsically attractive one, but Mr. Poston bears up beautifully under his incredibly heavy load. His sober scenes are mediocre, but as soon as he is suitably fueled he takes off like a rocket. He delivers quick wisecracks and long monologues with conviction and beautiful timing, but nothing he says is funnier than his silent, abstracted attempt in the middle of a crowded courtroom to discover the whereabouts...