Word: set
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family Affair. A confident but unpretentious and modest man of 47 who goes in for motorboat cup-racing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), Big Brother Guy gives most of the credit to brother "Carm," 46, whose distinctive singing, saxophone and phrasing have always set the tone of the band. Lebert's trumpet playing Guy rates almost as high. He puts his own talents at the bottom: "My fiddle never did anything." In fact, it's been years since he played...
Safety Screen. All sorts of things can go wrong with a rocket. It rises almost vertically at first, and is put on its course by pre-set gyroscopic instruments. When the instruments do not work just right, the rocket may dive to the ground, fly horizontally, or circle back with blood in its eye toward the launching platform. At least six of White Sands's rockets have circled. One missed the control blockhouse by only about 600 feet...
Karsch is more worried about the rockets that pick nearly right courses which would carry them far outside the target area. To deal with them, he has set up a system he calls a "safety screen...
...observers watch the rocket with telescopes. One station notes the east-west component in the rocket's course; the other the north-south component. Set up in front of each telescope is a "sky screen" with curved lines on it. If the rocket crosses one of these lines, it is likely to fly out of bounds...
...lounging plaster female with a breast like a precariously balanced baseball. Some liked it almost as well as Englishman Henry Moore's pachydermic pinheads or German Joan Arp's egg-smooth abstractions. Others contended that it could not be compared with the high standards in postwar sculpture set in more conventional works by Milanese Artists Marino Marini (TIME, May 30) and Giacomo Manzu (TIME, July 18), who have been winning praise in both Britain and the U.S. but for lack of new work to exhibit were not represented in the Varese show...