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...stage in this shoot was only a water-ballasted dummy, the first stage's performance (300,000-lb. thrust, U.S.'s biggest) promised that the hard-base missile (TIME, Oct. 13) would be ready for defense operation next year. The bird's now-certain role: temporary plug in the missile gap between the deterrent power of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers and the oncoming solid-fuel Navy Polaris and Air Force Minuteman...
GOLD BAR TRADING is starting on the Toronto Stock Exchange, will plug Canadian gold, meet investors' growing demands for a hedge against possible U.S. dollar devaluation, i.e., by revaluing gold upward. Bars, weighing about 2.2 Ibs., cost around $1,100, but margin buyers need put up only...
...pardon played out in the kind of twist with which Story Spinner O. Henry liked to end his own tales. Jack McKenzie, account executive for the Cain Organization, a Dallas public relations outfit, let it be known that he had whipped up the whole furor as a plug for a client's television show. The Gift of the Magi, a musical version of the sentimental, enduring O. Henry Christmas story. Said successful Pressagent McKenzie: "Greatest thing I ever...
...Plug Nichirens. In Tokyo, during a showing of Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion, the management of a movie theater had to beg Nichiren Buddhists in the audience to stop throwing coins-an act of worship-at the fragile Cinema-Scope screen...
Electric Charcoal. A plug-in broiler, with a heating unit made of long-lasting quartz, which gives food a charcoal-broiled taste without drying out meats. On sale by Radiant Queen. Price...