Word: soarings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imaginative Attack. The technical papers testified to an eagerness to try anything, however difficult or bizarre, that might move the U.S. toward space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration showed models of satellites already in orbit or soon to soar aloft-beautiful machines with the strange, angular, functional grace of well-designed space craft. North American Aviation, Inc. showed a full-scale model of its giant F-1 rocket engine, which spits out more than 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust and whose tail cone is as large as an Eskimo igloo...
...swung heavily into defense work, it vowed to pass up flashy Government contracts that offered more publicity value than profit potential. Avco figured that it lacked the know-how in liquid rocket engines to bid for the upper-stage Centaur booster, lacked the size to manage the complex Dyna-Soar space vehide. Instead, it bid successfully for products that Avco itself developed: gas-turbine engines for helicopters, height-finding radar, missile re-entry systems. Avco currently wrings 65% of its sales out of products that came off its own drawing boards in the past decade, and it is the prime...
...Wild East. Siberia stayed underpopulated so long because newcomers recoiled from the first experience of its immensity and climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen...
...chubby-faced leader, they seemed in direct line of descent from Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. But the music the Gregg Smith Singers performed last week at the avant-garde Contemporary Music Festival at Darmstadt, Germany, was as tortuously difficult as any being written. After listening to the visitors soar with uncanny ease through the continuing complexities of Schonberg, Krenek and Ives, Darmstadt Director Wolfgang Steinecke paid a rare tribute: the group was, he said, "Bestes Ameri-ka"-the best of America...
...better term to describe what the U.S. economy seems headed for. The real optimists had an even more hyperbolic word to describe what is coming: Superboom. By next spring, they predict, Berlin-inspired defense orders will strain U.S. productive capacity, and by Christmas 1962, the gross national product will soar to nearly $600 billion...