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...Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane started its famous supersonic flights by being dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first time under its own (four rocket motor) power. Piloted by 25-year-old Captain Charles E. Yeager, the first man to fly faster than sound, it streaked across the desert at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., and was airborne after only 2,300 ft., a shorter ground run than most standard fighters require...
...operations, he can now get around without a cane. Among his hit musicals: Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Jubilee, Red Hot and Blue. Having launched what may prove his biggest hit, he plans a new show for the same producers in the fall-but first he will motor on the Continent and cruise in the Mediterranean...
...about five miles a second) which would whirl it around the earth in about 100 minutes. Even the latest rockets do not carry enough fuel to get well above the atmosphere (some 500 miles) and settle into orbits. But atomic-powered rockets might theoretically do it. An atomic rocket motor might be one of the "components" that Forrestal's men are working...
...forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down on a target in either of these ways by giving it a powerful push from its nuclear rocket motor. But unless the operation were done with wondrous precision, the bomb could as well fall on Moscow, Idaho, as on Moscow, Russia...
Born. To Henry Ford II, 31, president of the Ford Motor Co. (and grandson of the founder), and Anne McDonnell Ford, 30, granddaughter of Utilitycoon Thomas E. Murray: their third child, first son; in Detroit. Weight...