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This is the landing system that will be employed by Dyna-Soar, the Air Force's $700 million, Boeing-built, maneuverable space vehicle, scheduled for first flight tests about 1964. Designed to be fired into orbit atop a Titan missile, Dyna-Soar is the closest thing to a spaceship in development now in the U.S. The dog capsule appears to put Russia well ahead of the U.S. in spaceship manufacture; its massive weight indicates that the passenger cabin probably will be large enough to support a crew of three men for a sustained period of flight...
...bounce." If sales were good, as they were in most industries, businessmen worried that they were not better. If they were poor, as they were in some industries, when would they improve? The economic experts who were in overoptimistic agreement last January that the economy would soar in 1960. were now guardedly optimistic about the next six months, but were no longer talking of the "soaring' sixties...
Basically, what worries most businessmen is that 1960 has not lived up to their expectations. Says Stanley Marcus, president of Dallas' Nieman-Marcus: "We all thought the golden '60s were to be a soar ing bird, not a land-based animal. Busi ness is still good, about the same as last year, which was good, but there is disap pointment because things are not as good as they were supposed to be." Disappointing Steel. The reasons for the disappointment in the economy's performance so far this year seem clear. The post-steel strike inventory buildup that...
...practice, the world's finest golfer looked unbeatable. Tanned and trim, Arnold Palmer (TIME Cover, May 2), spent hours perfecting his power off the tee, sent shots that seemed to soar forever in the rarefied, mile-high air of the Cherry Hills Country Club outside of Denver. On the greens, the 30-year-old Palmer had the same gentle touch that had brought him from behind in April to win the prestigious Masters, give him a big lead as the year's top money winner. Ready to turn Cherry Hills into a pitch-and-putt course, Palmer...
...Medical Research Building at Pennsylvania, Kahn has put his principles to work by erecting great servant towers that suck in fresh air through nostrils at the base, throw off laboratory fumes from stacks that soar 25 ft. above the roof. In place of the usual hallway cubicles, Kahn gave the researchers clear, unpartitioned studio spaces. His next project: a new research institute in San Diego. Calif, for Polio Vaccine Discoverer Dr. Jonas Salk. which Kahn intends to make "a realm of spaces" where form will truly enhance the institute's function as an academy of biology...