Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of the 75 to 100 gangs in the city are the Cobras, half of whose 40 to 50 members live in a Brooklyn housing project. All but a few of them are Negro; there are separate Puerto Rican gangs, and thoroughly integrated ones. The members are, in their own language, all "shook up" and cling together for defense against others as well as for the comradeship they can find nowhere else. They range in age from eleven to 20, occupy themselves chiefly with the protection of their own "turf" (territory). Trespassing on one gang's turf by another...
Fellow Travelers. Following the satellite through space is the empty third-stage rocket, which was separated from it by a clockwork device that released a weak spring and pushed the two bodies apart. Dr. John P. Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, says that satellite and rocket are still moving apart slowly. The rocket, which has an irregular shape, will be more strongly affected by such little air resistance as there is even at orbit's perigee and will therefore be the first to drop back into the atmosphere and vaporize. But this will not happen for a long time...
...fine reconnaissance vehicles . . . and will be good for weather observations . . . That, as far as I can see, is about the end of the story on the military value of earth satellites. You can't drop a bomb from a satellite; it just won't drop, and to project a bomb to earth is about as difficult as getting our human being back to earth . . . It's no good getting it on the wrong side of the earth...
...World's Fair U.S. Commissioner-General Howard S. Cullman credits Stone's early planning, even before a final budget figure was available, with giving the U.S. the fast start that "was the difference between make or break." Belgium's top contractor, Emile Blaton. made the project his particular baby. As a result, the U.S. Pavilion, one of the last to get started in Brussels, is among the first to be completed. Even more remarkable is the fact that Architect Stone stayed within 1% of the State Department's original $5.000,000 building budget...
Todd's optimism was always somewhere outside the law of averages. While others brooded over the recession and mourned the future of the cinema, he was committing millions to the filming of Don Quixote, his latest project. He glibly claimed that his 1957 Oscar-winning Around the World in 80 Days, which has already grossed $33 million, "will be the first movie ever to make $100 million." Said Todd: "I don't know where I'm going to spend it all." But no one who knew of his big-spending sprees and worldwide princely junkets with...