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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dull orange underside and shaded slate topside, the world's biggest submarine this week poised for its slow, stern-first slide into the Thames River at Groton, Conn. The submarine George Washington SSB(N) 598-longer than a football field (380 ft.) and, at 5,600 tons, almost twice the weight of Nautilus-would carry with it the U.S. Navy's highest hopes for the future. It is the first of the submarines designed around the Polaris ballistic-missile weapons system...
...especially grateful to David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, who gave valuable advice on the random-sample poll and to the local religious leaders and faculty members who discussed with us the issues involved. Editors for this supplement are Richard N. Levy '59, John E. McNees '60, and Charles S. Maier '60, David Horvitz '60 did the photographic work and William E. Schroeder '60 tabulated and correlated the questionnaire...
Even chemists had to give the drug a less jawbreaking name than N-isopropyl-2-methyl-2-propyl-1 ,3-propanediol dicarbamate, hit upon "carisoprodol." That was still too much for Wallace Labs' savvy marketing department: they are calling it Soma...
From Seattle last week, the first of the new Boeing intercontinental jet transports, the 707-320, whipped over the top of the world to Rome in n hr. 6 min., breaking the 4,225-mile nonstop commercial record claimed by the Russians with their TU-114. For overseas jet passengers, the new plane's 5,830-mile flight means an eventual end to the stopoffs now necessary on many transatlantic jet hops with the 707-120, which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines...
...gurgle. "Our faces glowing with liquor, our eyes more flashing, our tongues volubly tripping and repeating, we had great concert of talk and narrative, admiring ourselves and one another with warm, welcoming, smiling, appreciative, comradely, rosy hearts. We talked of motor engines and Henry Ford, of poith?n and the fairy fire, of famous poachers and deeds of blood and all the subtle stratagems of the Gael...