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...Class of '41 was on a space kick. Members displayed some really far-out signs; some of the best (or worst) were "Let's play space tennis--you bring the rockets," "Pleased to meteor," "Is your wife backwards? Give her a retro-rocket for Xmas," "There is no lead in our astronaut," and "Insist on a genuine Van Allen belt...
...conversation continued. Shepard's voice was clear and controlled. After maneuvering his capsule, he reported that it had assumed the proper attitude for firing its three braking retrorockets. They were not necessary for the flight; this time they were fired for practice. Then the retro package was jettisoned. Preparing for descent, Shepard reported that his periscope had retracted. As the capsule plunged downward into the atmosphere, and the Gs of deceleration climbed toward a punishing 10, the astronaut's voice grew gruff as he strained to make his breath behave. Then the capsule slowed; his words were distinct...
Spotnitz, a member of the Harvard Rocket Club, placed the rocket between 40 miles (perigee) and 2100 miles (apogee) from the earth and said that its period was approximately 100 minutes. On its fifteenth circumnavigation the recovery package separated and the retro rockets fired...
...that it could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days to the power fully realistic productions of his maturity, assembled for a retro spective show opening...
...Recovery -a very poor election argument for the New Deal. Since processing taxes re-enacted under the name of excises can be called substitutes rather than new taxes, they will not prevent the President from keeping his promise of "no new taxes." The same might be said of "retro-active exactions," of dubious constitutionality, which New Dealers hoped to impose to recover $200,000,000 of processing taxes from those to whom they were refunded by Supreme Court order. Taxes to pay for the Bonus were another matter. Whatever amount of taxes the President might ask to meet the Bonus...