Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Island home with swimming pool and three servants; a duplex Manhattan penthouse office suite that boasts a rehearsal hall and a Rouault; seven years of psychoanalysis, and such possessions as 50 broad-shouldered suits, a $4,000 diamond-and-star-sapphire ring and a solid gold lighter for his long, fat cigars. The last time he was on somebody else's payroll (in 1954 when he split with Imogene Coca and Producer Max [Your Show of Shows] Liebman) he earned $25,000 a week. Since then, as his own producer with a payroll of 60-odd employees...
...instead that Ike's and Monty's hindsights on Gettys burg only reflect a verdict long accepted by the U.S. Army and most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable, for Lee himself conceded afterwards: "It is I who have lost this fight...
...Angeles County grand jury last week landed the first solid blow on the peeping eye of Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison. Harrison, already beset by $28.5 million in libel suits, and ten confederates were indicted on charges of conspiracy to publish criminal libel, to distribute lewd and obscene material and to disseminate illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation. As California Assistant Attorney General Clarence Linn said, perhaps optimistically: "In my opinion, Confidential is finished...
...Thiokol Chemical Corp., which started out in 1929 as a producer of synthetic rubber, is now No. 3 in the industry, specializing in solid-fuel rockets. By adding an oxidizing (i.e., oxygen containing) agent to its synthetic rubber compounds, Thiokor turned the rubber into a highly concentrated fuel, ideal for such weapons as the Army's Nike, Hercules and Lacrosse missiles, the Air Force's Falcon air-to-air missile and the three-stage Lockheed X-17 research missile, which recently shot 600 miles above the earth. With two more stages, say Thiokol engineers, the X-17 might...
Liquid v. Solid. Watching the figures soar, dozens of big companies are hurrying into the field to share the bonanza. General Electric, after a start in small rockets, is now producing the big (100,000-lb. thrust) first-stage rocket for the Vanguard earth satellite. Curtiss-Wright is producing small antitank rockets for the Army, is working on a throttle-equipped" rocket engine for planes and missiles. Bell Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Phillips Petroleum, General Motors and many others are developing new engines and materials to fuel them...