Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialist in hurling the discus a country mile (168 ft. 8½ in. in 1952 Olympics), burly Schoolteacher Nina Ponomareva, 29, was herself hurled-right off the U.S.S.R. track and field team. Bounced with her, for "egotistical and uncomradely conduct," was another chunky champ, Shot Putter Galina Zybina. For Nina, disgrace was nothing new: visiting London for a track meet in 1956, she raised hackles and eyebrows by walking out of a shop with five filched hats under her arm. later coughed up $8.82 in court costs to get free of stern British...
...body of a long-range missile lives only for its nose. Once shot into space, the nose, with its payload of thermonuclear explosive, speeds on alone, and its problem becomes re-entry into the atmosphere. U.S. missilemen need nose cones that will not burn up from friction as they plummet earthward in a long arc at up to 16,000 m.p.h...
...cast and staff of the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, formed this summer to bring student drama to the Summer School, has undergone difficulties peculiar to a small one-shot organization. Two of their members here relate some of the problems besetting their first play, Antigone...
...morning the sky blossomed red when the Army's reliable Redstone took a nuclear warhead up an estimated 100 miles and exploded it in the thin air on space's edge-a high-altitude test, say intelligence reports, that came ten months behind a similar U.S.S.R. shot in the crucial race for the anti-bomber and antimissile missile (see SCIENCE). Next day Air Force missilemen at Cape Canaveral, Fla. sent their mightiest beast, a 100-ton three-engined Atlas-B ballistic missile, on its first successful full-power flight...
...circus clown and acting a fantastic, strenuously contrived role which showed no human characteristic." He often carried firearms. Once he was shooting the tops off champagne bottles lined up against a wall behind which some children were playing. Their mother hurried over to complain that her children might be shot. "If that should ever happen, Madame, we should ourselves be delighted to get some new ones with you," Jarry courteously replied...