Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...
...mushroom clouds, grunion hunters and men's magazines. We are born, we go to college, and then what? In the age of surrealistic art, in the butt-end semantics of Joyce and the discordant lilt of Stravinsky we are somehow yet conservative. We stand marking time, unimpressed, hands skin-deep in mental hip pockets...
Actually, Silberstein's renewed stock buying was regarded by Wall Street as less a new take-over attempt than a desperate move to save his skin. As a recent Penn-Texas report to the Securities and Exchange Commission made clear, Silberstein has "Blundered into one of the weirdest financial squeezes in Wall Street history. To buy his F-M stock, Silberstein had to scour the U.S. for loans, some carrying interest rates and other costs totaling 15%, and almost all due within a year. Just to get some of the loans from "24 banks in various parts...
...slim conical body should have a blunt point, which does not get as hot at hypervelocity as a sharp point does. The leading edges of the wings and fins should be blunt too. This shape should radiate away enough frictional heat to keep the temperature of its skin below the softening point...
...night of Oct. 16 a standard Aerobee research rocket was fired at Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. At 35 miles altitude the nose separated from the rest of the rocket and coasted up to 55 miles. Then the nose exploded, but in no ordinary way. Inside its aluminum skin it carried three 2-to 5-lb. "shaped charges" of explosive designed and fitted by Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of CalTech...