Word: mades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing we can do in the short term in the way of getting something up there that will match or surpass the Russkies. We can rejigger things, but that would be a stopgap measure and not a program. The important point-the crucial point-is that decisions must be made now if the future is to bear fruit...
...When Major General John Medaris, head of the Army Ordnance Missile Command at Huntsville, Ala., last week announced his retirement, Spaceman von Braun and Army pressagents played it as a protest against the space mixup. But Medaris, 57, made it clear that he had decided to retire two months before to get a toe hold in private business or education before he reached the retirement...
...committee meeting on a serious subject that he takes seriously: the urgent need for civil defense fallout shelters (TIME, July 20). But a glance at his two-day schedule was ample evidence that he was also embarked on his first major political foray outside New York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential ambitions. Said a withdrawn, tight-lipped Rocky...
...wrapping up Rocky's own point: the U.S. needs leadership to "tell the people the hard facts of existence that face us." All told, the deceptively boyish Kennedy drew ten rounds of applause in nine minutes, a rout which lent poignant irony to Rocky's smiling remark, made to a friend as he surveyed the influential crowd before dinner: "I'm just a sand-lot player...
Braniff man, Pilot Frank Staley, grabbed a seat near the front. Baum made a couple of descending spirals, wove between hills near the town of Oso. He was only 200 yds. from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave up. The fiery wing exploded, and the plane splashed into the Stillaguamish River. The forward section disintegrated on impact, killing Baum, Berke, Engineer Hagen and Frank Staley, The tail section hit a sandbar, and the four men inside crawled to safety...