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...Aeronautical Sciences, Engineer Harold W. Ritchey of Thiokol Chemical Corp. explained some of the tricks that are used to make solid rockets behave. One method, he said, is to put vanes in the gas jet. When their angles are changed, they deflect the stream of gas like a rudder. This system was used on the German wartime V2, but the vanes add a lot of drag, and they must be made of highly heat-resistant material if they are to last even the few minutes needed to do their...
Ohio Republican Stewart, already the possessor of a distinguished judicial reputation (see box), succeeds another distinguished Ohio Republican. Harvard-trained Lawyer Harold Burton, Truman-appointed, was mildly conservative in outlook, served on the adventuresome Warren court not as a guiding rudder but as a valuable anchor to windward. Last year, in one of the most important Supreme Court minority opinions of the decade, Burton powerfully dissented from the ruling that Du Font's 23% stock ownership of General Motors violated antitrust laws (TIME, June 17, 1957). He authored last May's conservative-leaning opinion that a worker kept...
...Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...
...welts and bruises. "I found it difficult to shoot Mudie," said Boston, "but it was the most humane thing to do. He sort of yelped and turned over." Alone again, Boston longed for any sort of companionship, wrote in his log: "Noticed a very small fish swimming near the rudder. I hope that he stays there. It will be nicer to have company...
Aramburu and Rojas brought the rudder back from right to dead ahead, and got on with their mission. The government restored the U.S.-style constitution that had served, until Peron emasculated it, since 1853. The regime wiped Peron's name from public display in Argentina, except for curbstone scribblings and his father's tomb. An expedition was sent up Aconcagua, the Hemisphere's highest (alt. 22,835 ft.) mountain, to topple a bust of the dictator. A team of clerks screened thousands of references to his name from the Buenos Aires telephone book-but recently discovered that...