Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of Project Vanguard, Hagen said that, starting this fall, four grapefruit-size satellites will be launched to test radio-tracking systems for the six major satellites that will begin to go up next spring. This fall's minor moons will be only 6.4 in. in diameter, weigh only 3.25 lbs. They will be launched at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base by the same type three-stage rocket that next spring will catapult into space the full-size satellites, which will be 20 in. in diameter, weigh 21.5 lbs. Hagen thinks the test satellites will stay aloft...
...project. The writer was, of course, Alexander Eliot. The task of designing and producing the book went to Art Director Phillips...
...ordering slowdowns a fortnight ago in production of its F8U-1. Crusader, A4D-2 Skyhawk and F3H-2 Demon, last week announced another. Delivery schedules on the F4D-1 Skyray fighter manufactured by Douglas Aircraft will also be lengthened. ¶ The Air Force canceled a $100 million flight-research project with Republic Aviation on Republic's XF-103 jet interceptor. Selecting its weapons, the Air Force announced a new contract with North American Aviation for a new air-to-surface missile similar to the 6-47's Rascal...
...star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ed Wynn will get the first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World...
...they do not feel quite the same way about chapels. Congressmen marshaled some Congress-like reasons two years ago to turn down plans for the Air Force Academy chapel at Colorado Springs (TIME, July 18, 1955 et seq.). So angry were their cries against the glass, steel and aluminum project that the Air Force decided to rub it all out and start over again. Last week the House debated a new plan for the chapel. It had a hard time making up its mind...