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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bird's booster stage are training vehicles on which U.S. engineers are learning to handle the five much larger engines that will boost the Apollo spaceship on its voyage to the moon. Saturn's second stage teaches an even more difficult art. Its six Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engines burn liquid hydrogen, which is incredibly touchy to handle, but has an added efficiency that is considered essential for the moon project. The smooth success of last week's launch suggests that LH2 has at last become a routine fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Measuring Meteoroids | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...would be equally silly to say that we shouldn't show Sergei Einstein's Potempkin on the grounds that it idealiezs a Socialist rebellion," Mrs. Pratt added...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: 25 Picket Griffith's 'Birth of Nation' as 'Despicable Racist Propaganda' | 2/23/1965 | See Source »

...Pratt, a vice-president of Brattle Films, said last night that "It is silly, after all these years, to think that the film presents a political philosophy...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: 25 Picket Griffith's 'Birth of Nation' as 'Despicable Racist Propaganda' | 2/23/1965 | See Source »

WALDEN P. PRATT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 5, 1965 | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...village-like from the inside, speaks its own jargon, and carefully keeps its business confidential. Deals amounting to millions of pounds are often closed with a casual word, but it is a tenet of the City that business is never discussed in such prestige clubs as White's, Pratt's, Carlton or Brooks. All major financial institutions have their own dining rooms, where financial men daily have guests for relaxed lunches. In their offices, the leaders of London's oldest neighborhood conduct their business in a dark-paneled aura of ceremony; there are grandfather clocks, brass cuspidors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Citadel of the Commonwealth | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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