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...Army's test rocket, the Jupiter-C. Its first stage, which contributed most of the push into space, was the familiar, well-tested Redstone, fitted for the occasion with slightly longer fuel tanks, and burning a hydrazine-based, exotic fuel called Hydyne, which gave more thrust than its motor's usual diet of alcohol. Stuck on its nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets, 40 in. long and 6 in. in diameter. Atop the bucket was a single...
...firing time approached, the bucket, driven by a small electric motor, began to rotate. This motion had the same purpose as the spin of a rifle bullet: to "spin-stabilize" the upper stages of the rocket. It would also check any tendency to veer off course if any of the small rockets in the bucket should ignite later than the others, or burn erratically...
...progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts in anti-missile missiles, and more imaginative technological achievements (such as manned missiles, a rocket motor with 1,000,000 Ibs. of thrust), as well as some head-knocking on the question of civil-defense shelters...
...Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with indirect lighting when military searchlights were reflected from an overhead muslin screen to illuminate paintings. Today, says New York's Metropolitan Museum Director James Rorimer. "the big question is. do you use daylight or electricity?" The obvious answer-"both...
...wired Wagner. The mayor rides in a seven-passenger 1955 Cadillac limousine, which is 19 ft. long v. 14.8 ft. of a Rambler American, costs $822 a year to maintain, not counting a chauffeur's annual salary of up to $4,865. Moreover, the city runs about 65 motor mastodons (Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers, Packards) for conveying top brass, as well as 149 medium ones (Buicks, Mercuries, Dodges, Pontiacs, De Sotos) for lesser lights...