Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glowing Wings. But soaring 100 miles above the earth is only a first step. Greater peril comes when the pilot starts down through the atmosphere to land. To offset the ferocious heat generated by the air's friction, the X-15's skin is made of Inconel X, a heat-resisting alloy that keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure...
...What the newspaper-reading portion of the people read and remember here is not that Marian Anderson, Jackie Robinson and Ralph Bunche are accepted citizens of the United States, but that people who have the same color skin that they have are being treated as inferiors...
...four years of hunting, Dogcatcher McGowen had come to think of Maverick as something special-a symbol of sorts. "He kind of got under my skin," he said. Last month, when McGowen got orders to shoot the dog, he refused: "Get somebody else." Then McGowen planned his biggest push. One morning two police cars and three of McGowen's cars cruised the tightly netted area. Neighbors took up positions near by. One of McGowen's men, armed with an air rifle loaded with a nicotine-tipped needle, climbed to the rooftop near the spot where Maverick liked...
...MOUNTAIN Is YOUNG, by Han Suy!n (51 I pp.; Putnam; $4.95), is characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...
What the tourists see in the south Italian fishing town of Porto Manacore is fine Adriatic beaches, offshore islands ideal for skin diving and a somnolent landscape of ripening fruit orchards. French Novelist Roger Vailland looks around more sharply, and what he sees is far less pretty In The Law (a Book of the Month Club selection and 1957 winner of France's famed Prix Goncourt), he coolly examines a hand-picked cast of Manacoreans and discovers without surprise that their lives are governed by poverty, cynicism and naked power. A sometime Communist Author Vailland searches out what suits...