Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burial Plans. It was clear, if it had not been before, that Nikita Khrushchev was a nimble-footed dictator who could skillfully play the cold-war game all the way across the board, from rocket rattling to peace-dove cooing, from the Summit to an all-out economic offensive. "We will bury you,'' he said boisterously in November 1956 at a Moscow reception, and the burial plans are many. And it is equally clear that against Khrushchev's threats the U.S. cannot be satisfied with mere counterprograms to Soviet programs, counterploys to Soviet ploys, counter-propaganda...
...launching pad at Cape Canaveral one afternoon last week thundered an Army Jupiter-C rocket. Seven minutes later, the rocket popped a satellite into orbit. What was even more remarkable than this space-age achievement was the fact that the world accepted the news of a third U.S. orbiting moon with a great deal less flutter than that accorded the winners of Hollywood's Academy Awards (see CINEMA...
...Liquid Blonde." For the man in the street who hungers for the stars, Space Journal is designed to fill a vacuum between the trade publications and scientific magazines such as the American Rocket Society's Astronautics and Jet Propulsion. The new issue ranges from space-travel's past-a piece on Massachusetts-born Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)-to such futuristic items as an estimate of the cost of sending mail by rocket to the moon ($25 a letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling...
Loose talk about space travel has gone pretty far; it may be a bit early to think of orbiting Air Force generals and rocket company executives circling the moon. To bring some sense to such flights of fancy, President Lee DuBridge of Caltech last week gave the Western Space Age Conference in Los Angeles a tranquilizing dose of anti-poppycock...
Dramaliturgy. In Baltimore, the Rev. George F. Packard, illustrating a sermon, produced a rubber-band-propelled model rocket (decorated with orange fins and the word "Soul"), created an illusion of blast-off by dropping Dry Ice in water at the moment of launching, sent the missile to the ceiling of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, cried: "Confirmation launches us into the flight of life, and the fuel is Holy Communion...