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Brucker lost no time hustling down to the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles to protest. In Chicago Major General John Medaris, Redstone commander, dramatically got aboard a plane for Washington to fight off NASA capture-while a news leak rallied press reinforcements...
With its soft. length and 22-ft. wingspan, the X-15 looks more like a missile than an airplane. A sophisticated descendant of the X-1 rocket plane in which Test Pilot "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier (TIME, June 21, 1948), it is expected to reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen...
While poring over briefs in his Cincinnati office last week, youthful (43) Federal Judge Potter Stewart got a terse telephone call from Attorney General William P. Rogers. Could Stewart catch a plane for Washington right away? Judge Stewart said that his duties on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals were pressing him, asked whether the matter was really important. Rogers assured him that...
...Appropriately, Directors Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 83, and Charles F. Kettering, 82, of General Motors, both proudly proclaim that they have never taken a lick of exercise in their lives. On level ground, the farthest they walk is from office or apartment door to car or from car to plane. Up and down, "Boss"' Kettering gets a fair amount of walking because he is too impatient to wait for elevators, walks up two floors and down three in offices and labs...
Sputnik Horrors. As his sculpture moved from the flat plane into the round, Arp found himself creating biomorphic objects that ambiguously suggested a cross between scrambled genes and objects in nature. As a practicing poet, Arp gave them titles aimed to launch the spectator on a whirl of free associations...