Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minuteman. Most promising solid-fuel rocket is the Minuteman, the Air Force's long-range (6,300 miles) missile. Not much has been revealed officially, but an air of success hangs around men who are working on it. Much smaller than its rivals, the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, it has three stages filled with fuel made mostly of a rubbery plastic holding together crystals of an oxygen-supplying material, such as ammonium perchlorate. The ingredients are first blended to form a semiliquid mass like peanut butter. This is pumped with extreme care into the rocket casing and cured...
...disk jockeys, dentists, engineers. But when Guest Conductor Edouard van Remoortel rapped them to silence and led them into Beethoven's Egmont Overture, housewife and teen-ager played with astonishing competence. At the start of its 100th season, the St. Louis Philharmonic demonstrated again what its admirers have long claimed-that it is the finest non-professional orchestra in the world...
...film has its failures. The movie hero is pretty much an overgrown boy scout who never experiences the moral struggles that beset the hero of the book. Then, too, the story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary...
Last week, matched against the speed of the Cardinals, the Giants' rookie-studded punting team gave up two touchdowns on long runbacks of kicks. But on the line of scrimmage, the Giants allowed only 96 yards by rushing, none by passing, on one series of downs spilled Cardinal backs for losses of nine, thirteen and six yards. Final score: Giants 30, Cardinals 20. The victory gave the Giants an undisputed lead in the Eastern conference despite a ramshackle offense that stands an abysmal ninth in scoring in the 12-team N.F.L...
...Linebacker Sam Huff and his colleagues have proved that the defense can win ball games. All year long. Giant tacklers have been setting up touchdowns for their own offense, then digging in to stop enemy drives. When the Steelers were moving for the winning touchdown in an early game, the line held twice with 3 in. to go. The man who scored the deciding touchdown that beat the Steelers, 21-16: Sam Huff (on a recovered fumble...