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These two events would have been plenty for a single week. But in the accumulating momentum of missilery, U.S. missilemen fired successful test shots of Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic mis siles, got off a Polaris intermediate-range missile that traveled 1,100 miles, sent three Bomarc defensive missiles after fastmoving targets, and hit them (one Bomarc intercepted a supersonic Regulus II missile). And, only one week after an X-15 plane set a new speed record for piloted aircraft, the same X-15 climbed to an altitude of more than 131,000 ft., higher than any plane had ever...
...effective in the age of ballistic missiles and nuclear destruction, the Thors must be capable of nearly instant action. But to avoid a calamitous mis take, there must be every possible safeguard. The actual procedure for ordering the launching of a Thor missile has both speed and precautions...
...stigmata of bad amateurism: elaborate posturing; sporadic and phoney attempts at the proper accents; cliche characterizations; apple-cheeked students looking highly uncomfortable under assumed grey hair. The casting seems to have been done on the eenie-meenie-miney-mo system, but in spite of this and other mis- and malfeasances, the director, Marston Balch, is more to be pitied than censured. Whatever may have been his conception of the play, this motley crew is incapable of rendering it. Some, of course, are better than others, but only Frederick Blais, as an affable but reverend bishop, is anything more than tolerable...
...races approach, speculation and rumor spread eagerly, and spying and the cunning release of mis-information become increasingly valuable. One afternoon when the heavies were commuting from Henley to their lodgings at Shiplake, someone asked the Crimson manager what time the train left. "6:32," he replied. By the next morning it was common knowledge that the heavies had rowed a trial heat in 6.32, only two seconds short of the record...
...table was applied to a group of 100 Jewish boys confined in the Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School in New York State, with the purpose of determining the extent to which it would have been possible, years earlier, to have identified them accurately as potentially serious delinquents. Black and Mis Glick ascertained that 91 per cent of the group would have been correctly spotted by the test...