Word: soared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pole Vault. Olympic Champion Don Bragg has a new world mark to shoot at. Oklahoma State's George Davies bettered Bragg's record by a full inch with a 15-ft. 10¼-in. performance last month in Boulder, Colo. Both men are sure to soar still higher...
...such project, long in the planning stage, is the construction of Dyna-Soar, a controllable, maneuverable space vehicle capable of skimming the atmosphere on hot, stubby wings and of landing on a chosen spot, not merely drifting down by parachute like the Vostok or Freedom 7. Now veteran rocketmen are talking of beating Dyna-Soar off the pad. They are suggesting a solid-fuel rocket with upper-stage rockets powerful enough to put the present X-15 into orbit. Long before the Russians get a true plane into space, the U.S. might have the X-15 circling the world. Once...
...Education. Though they may have entered the Navy with a sketchy scientific schooling, Rickover's recruits soar in his rarefied atmosphere. "I had the best math teachers in the world," gloats one sailor. "It's like getting a $20,000 education," says another. The most impressive result is a new willingness to keep studying after graduation. On the Polaris sub George Washington, for example, sailors will soon attend classes in everything from calculus to computers, recently took a Harvard extension course using kinescoped TV lectures by Historian Crane Brinton...
...faults. The corridors were bare and forbidding, and the apartments rather wild in scale. A room might be only 12 ft. wide but soar 16 ft. high. Nevertheless, major housing projects all over the world, including Corbu's own at Nantes-Réze and in Berlin, have borrowed from Marseille...
...time is not far off, said Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last week, "when the first spaceship with a man on board will soar into space." He and his audience assumed, of course, that the first spaceman will be a Soviet astronaut riding a Soviet satellite. Most U.S. authorities tend to agree, admitting that the Soviet man-in-space program is well ahead of the U.S.'s. The Russians might well be able to put a man into orbit this week and bring him back in reasonably good condition. The five-ton satellites in which they have orbited dogs weigh...