Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar posts have "watched" 800-mile flights from the Krasny Yar missile range and from the island of Novaya Zemlya off the northern coast in the Arctic Sea; and the Russians have shot an ICBM thousands of miles. It may be that they have not yet developed a dependable nose cone or solved the re-entry problem (the U.S. Army's Jupiter nose cone was recovered intact, earlier this year, after a 1,600-mile shoot). Still, the U.S. has yet to go the full distance with the Atlas 5,500-mile ICBM. In missiles, more than...
Less than two years after developing its Pyroceram nose cones for guided missiles, Corning Glass Works put on sale in Manhattan department stores the first consumer products of its new heat-resistant glass, which looks like china. The products: a 10-in. skillet and three sizes (1 qt., 1½ qt. and 1¾ qt.) of covered casserole dishes, priced from $5.95 to $12.95. Guaranteed to go from freezer to red-hot burner without cracking, the skillet comes with a removable handle, brass-plated wire cradle and cover so it can be used to serve from at the table...
Since the air is too thin 100 miles up for any aerodynamic controls to be effective, the X-15 has an independent system of ballistic controls that need no air. In the nose are four pairs of small jets pointing up, down, left and right (see diagram). When the pilot wants to depress the nose of his craft in near-airless space, he will shoot superheated steam (produced by catalyzed hydrogen peroxide) through the upward-pointing jets. The reaction will push the nose downward. Similar jets in the wingtips will keep the wings level or make the ship bank...
...capacity for hard work. Even at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed and his normally silent barber instinctively exclaimed "Salute!" the Pope replied "Grazie," then quickly warned, "Basta, basta...
...name. He always ran from job to class to garret-largely because he had no overcoat to keep out New Haven's raw, dank cold. He kept up this habit of running wherever he was going until 1957, when, at 94, he fell and skinned his nose. Said he last week: "I may get back...