Word: sione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very casualness of the static test, the ease with which the engineers stuck to their strict schedule, that made the test so impressive. The plain cylinder, 60 ft. long and 13 ft. in diameter, made by Lockheed Propul sion Co. for the Air Force, was the biggest solid-propellant booster ever tested, and the simple fact that it developed 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, exactly as planned, was a technical triumph. Lockheed engineers also man aged to test several new rocket-motor features on their roaring monster. The casing was made of a new nickel steel, only...
Gerhard's affinity for Camus first led him to consider writing an opera based on the late French author's bleak first novel, The Stranger, and he still plans to do the work-if he can win a commis sion. But while lying ill two years ago, the musical approach to the message of The Plague struck him. "It is man's bestiality to man, and the pestilence is the fight against terror." That message, he says, "took my imagination by storm...
...Faith, his 13-week series of lectures on The Book of Genesis captured a regular Sunday audience of more than 3,000,000 and drew more than 15,000 letters-by far the best response to any program put on by the National Council of Churches in televi sion history. Last Sunday, Frontiers of Faith presented the first lecture of a new series by Lutheran Minister Staack. His theme this year is "living personalities of the Old Testament," and it promises to do just as well as Genesis...
...that it is better to divorce than to burn. The European aim is to keep the family under one roof; the American aim is to provide personal happiness. Partly as a result, the U.S. has developed what sociologists call "serial polygamy," often consisting of little more than a succes sion of love affairs with slight legal trimmings. Cynics point out that serial polygamy was a fact even in Puritan times, when men had three or four wives because women were apt to die young; nowadays, divorce rather than death provides variety...
Into Intermediate. General Motors figures that it has another trend spotted in the sales success of Ford's inter mediate-sized Fairlane, which is in a niche between the compacts and standard-sized cars. G.M.'s Chevrolet Divi sion is readying an elegant, all-new intermediate car that it is tentatively calling the Chevelle. Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac will upgrade their compacts to intermediate size, making many of their parts interchangeable with those of the Chevelle. Ford, on the other hand, is apparently tired of the trend it started: it will drop the intermediate Meteor from its Mercury...