Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking down the bumpy road toward 1960, Jack Kennedy has moments of discouragement. He takes from his wallet a cartoon showing a harassed office worker, standing on his chair, thumbing his nose at his desk, and crying "I quit!' Says Kennedy: "That's the way I feel sometimes." But in a more characteristic mood, even while maintaining his official if-I-decide-to-try line, he looks eagerly to the brawls ahead. Says he: "Nobody is going to hand me the nomination. If I were governor of a large state, Protestant and 55, I could sit back...
...relatively minor experiment that the Air Force told about last week showed that satellite-based aggression may not be so easy as it sounds. On the night of Oct. 16 a standard Aerobee research rocket was fired at Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. At 35 miles altitude the nose separated from the rest of the rocket and coasted up to 55 miles. Then the nose exploded, but in no ordinary way. Inside its aluminum skin it carried three 2-to 5-lb. "shaped charges" of explosive designed and fitted by Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of CalTech...
...Really keep your nose to the grindstone...
...nose of the rocket used to launch Sputnik I should come down to earth some time this weekend, possibly blazing like a meteor, Fred L. Whipple, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, announced last night...
...nose cone blazed in last August after a 1,200-mile flight at a speed of more than 9,000 m.p.h., it coolheadedly ejected a parachute to brake its plunge, and popped out a balloon and a letter (later successfully delivered to Army Missileman Major General John B. Medaris). Next it fired off several small bombs just before "impacting" in the water to let the Navy outfield know where to look, then dangled flags and a flashing beacon above its watery resting place. As a broadcasting station, it popped out antennas, began "beeping" out its location. Then, for good measure...