Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later the U.S. is still running a poor second in the two-entry space race. And in high-level Washington last week, there still were no detectable signs of urgency about the U.S.'s space lag. The President, his advisers reported, was convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race...
...Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There is no difference between a great majority of leaders of both political parties in firmly standing behind the President ... in supporting the fight of the people of Berlin and the world to achieve the kind of government they want...
...were 84 students from Trenton State College (for teachers) and two faculty members, returning to Trenton from Manhattan after seeing Archibald MacLeish's prizewinning play J.B. It was past midnight as the darkened buses cut off the turnpike at New Brunswick and headed south for Trenton. In the second bus, some of the 40 coeds aboard dozed; others chattered about the play, and a few were singing songs...
Highballing along behind the second bus was a trailer-tanker truck, and at the wheel was 54-year-old Roscoe Poe, who had made a delivery of linseed oil to New York and was hauling his tanker back to Philadelphia. Roscoe Poe's driving history was pock-marked with traffic violations and convictions: in the past five years, he had committed at least seven moving violations (speeding, passing red lights, etc.) in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. But there he was, still driving-and driving a truck with bad brakes...
Farewell, Old Pal. Early last year, Mischker began to harp uneasily on an old German proverb: "The pitcher goes to the well until it breaks." To replace Mischker, the insatiable Roden enlisted his 22-year-old son Jürgen, but on Jürgen's second night out with Father, a motorcycle cop, suspicious at the sight of so young a man driving so expensive a car, came over to investigate and spotted the beef in the back seat. With the pitcher plainly broken at last, Roden confessed all, and last week, as his trial wound...