Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The U.S.'s rival moon shot is off for another month at least. The Atlas ICBM that was especially rigged to boost a 375-Ib. payload around the moon in early October blew up last week at Cape Canaveral during a static test of its engines. It not only...
J.P.L.'s founders got a bigger boost in 1939. when the National Academy of Sciences came across with $10,000 to develop rockets for helping airplanes get off the ground. In 1941 the first airplane took off with a J.P.L.-developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rocket. During World...
At the age of 61, Aalto remains a prickly individualist who drinks hard, works all hours of the day and night. Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without...
Return of the Pros. The Los Angeles Dodgers had moved in an aura of Hollywood make-believe all season long. Too many experiments were working out too well. Brought up from Spokane, a gutty little Negro shortstop named Maury Wills turned into a fielding flash. Pulled off the bench, boyish...
¶Other games: Starting a drive for a national championship, the mighty Iowa Hawkeyes spotted California an early touchdown, then came back to win 42-12. Beefy Ohio State had to struggle mightily to edge upstart Duke, 14-13. Once-great Michigan State, still reeling from last season's...