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...Cape Canaveral the Air Force successfully test fired part of a new air-to-ground weapons system called the Bold Orion. Slated for the Strategic Air Command, the revolutionary nuclear-tipped missile will prolong the useful life of SAC bombers by enabling them to fire at targets 1,000 miles distant-from points outside an enemy's radar screen. Last week's shot, fired by a supersonic B58 Hustler (whose sonic boom startled beach residents) was a one-stage version of the new weapon. The two-stage version, fired for the first time a few days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Historic Week | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang for a long time, suspended, like a star-colored point, just below Orion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Like a Bullet | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Jeanne Modigliani-Orion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morning-After Artist | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Made Mink. Manhattan's Collins & Aikman Corp. will soon put on sale a synthetic mink, which it claims looks like the real thing from a few feet away. Composed of Du Pont's Orion, Union Carbide's Dynel and other synthetics, the phony mink gets its effect by combining both long and short hairs to imitate real mink, will come in several shades. Joining the company's synthetic beaver ("Cloud No. 9") and sealskin ("Kissing Cousin"), a coat will cost less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Awards will also be presented to Orion M. Barber '57, Peter A. A. Berle III '58, David E. Bertelson '57, William T. Finley, Jr. '57, Daniel J. Johnedis '57, and Carlo F. Zezza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R.O.T.C. Groups Will Hold Annual Ceremony Today | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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