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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading bird in Ben Schriever's ICBM arsenal, Convair's Atlas, is scheduled for test-firing for the first time at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base this spring. This does not mean that the ICBM is ready for the 5,000 mile trip that will carry it 500 miles up into space. The first test will be over an 1,800 mile course at a lower altitude, primarily to check aerodynamic characteristics...
Born: Jan. 2, 1906, in Normandy, son of an impoverished weaver and a concierge in a savings bank (who still phones her son to complain of the "mean and wicked" things they say about him in the papers...
Soon the mansion is oppressive with rampant femininity. Curtains part to reveal a feminine world of black bras and girdles, as a woman, whose soberer decisions may mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to a U.S. clothing firm, peers into a mirror with the teetering look of calculated indecision, the peculiar mark of a woman buying a dress for herself. Outside, a thousand newspapers and a hundred periodicals were beginning to thunder the word to the limit of the known world. This year the word on Dior is: "The line is free, free as the Paris air ... free from making...
...Fire. Surrounded by his new creations-done in hot yellows, blues and "searing crimsons, and flecked over with brush strokes in glittering silver and gold that often made them appear to be glowing chalices-Ferren admitted he was as surprised as his old comrades in arms. "What does it mean?" he asked. "You tell me. This hits a man right down where he ticks. All I know is that it had to happen. First I started with two lines, like a figure; then came a central ball of fire in a parenthesis. I closed the parenthesis, and there...
General Thompson's turnabout, which raised total U.S. production to a record 7,515,400 bbl. a day, did not mean that the oil shortage had worsened. Only a fortnight ago Thompson himself appeared before a House committee in Washington to argue with an expert's persuasiveness that reports of a serious shortfall in the European oil lift were only a myth. Bearing out his analysis, Britain has since eased oil rationing...