Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing but Eloquence. If a mishap occurs at altitudes higher than 20 miles, no ordinary escape capsule is likely to survive the heat and shock of return to the lower atmosphere. Besides a parachute, it should have wings of a sort, plus rocket propulsion so that the crew can choose a reasonably favorable part of the earth to land on. Except for trying to hit Kansas instead of Antarctica, the crew should be able to leave everything else to automatic devicing. "About all that is expected of them." said Stanley, "is that they return to earth alive and express with...
...serious science students" in the Rocket Club elected an entire slate of officers and "transformed the whole idea of the organization" in a closed meeting last night...
...Originally the idea of the club was to parody the action of the Student Council in joining and subsequently withdrawing from the NSA," explained Daniel N. Flickinger '62, the new corresponding secretary. "The club was to enroll in the American Rocket Association and then secede, claiming abuse and maltreatment," he continued...
Flickinger stated, "We have transformed the Rocket Club into an organization dedicated to the development of methods of rocket construction, propulsion, and guidance. We are no longer concerned with tinkering with explosives...
...meritocracy works; the upper class knows for the first time in history that it is superior in all ways to the lower; and the intellectual proletariat is encouraged to accept a "just inferiority" and develop a liking for sports. Modern wonders abound in Young's Utopia; the morning rocket leaves regularly for the moon, and England's southwestern counties have been covered with concrete for the convenience of motorists. But even as the author writes, the end is in sight. A general strike is called by a fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly aware that...