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Results of the meteor research are also being correlated with V-2 rocket studies. Whipple expects further work to reveal new data on the upper level of the earth's atmosphere which figures in radio communications and the world's climate...
...half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach had an air of permanence-17-year-old Ajax and Meteor had performed the same job on the King's 80th birthday...
...Meteor Measuring. B295 cannot fly above the effective top of the atmosphere, and rockets, so far, have not stayed up long enough to be thoroughly bombarded by free-striking cosmic rays. But meteors have been cruising through space without atmospheric protection for millions, perhaps billions, of years. If examined soon after they hit the earth, they should show the worst that cosmic rays...
...Thrill-a-Second. Broadway was less excited. He did get a job speaking lines, of a sort. They were spoken very sharply and very fast at a World's Fair ride called the Meteor Speedway. The lines began: "A-thrill-a-second-a-mile-a-minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part...
From 2,000 yards away, Test Pilot Keith Butler dived his Meteor fighter at Vicky's torpedolike body and rudimentary, penguinlike wings as if he wanted to shoot her down. But he only shot photographs with five camera guns. Through his radio he reported: "Rocket dropping away in a glide ... a steady glide . . . still gliding . . . it's exploded. . . ." Vicky had not exploded. Her rocket motors were starting up with a belch of black smoke...