Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose this week in Washington before a distinguished audience of hypersonic-flight experts to deliver the prestigious Wright Brothers Lecture. For Speaker H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the honor was well timed. That morning Avco Manufacturing Corp. announced that it had devised a blunt-nose cone for the Air Force ICBM Titan. Originator of the blunt-nose concept: Dr. "Harvey" Allen, one of the most brilliant and colorful of the nation's flight scientists...
...tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will not be despondent if it does...
...rocket that is carrying our satellite-The rocket may not have gotten off-There is a very large black smoke cloud-a very large black area around the location that the explosion occurred." By then the Vanguard had dropped dismally back on its tail, its nose section askew; it had burst into varicolored fire and flame...
After water and carbon dioxide from automatic extinguishers had put out the fire, the worn-out and heartsick missilemen found the sole survivor: the U.S.'s tiny satellite, intact, thrown out of the nose section of the rocket, broadcasting the signals that were meant to be sent down from space. The U.S. Sputnik sending from the ground was right on frequency: 108 megacycles...
...movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms), and was fired from one of her first radio shows by the late Tobacco Tyrant George Washington Hill for not singing "loud and fast enough." Self-conscious of her limited looks ("They said I had no glamour"), brunette Dinah had her nose bobbed and a gap in her teeth closed, became a blonde and one of the best-dressed women in show business...