Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Paul Tillich was born a German, not only because Germany seems to produce philosophers and theologians as Australia produces tennis players, but because few countries in the world have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within...
...altitudes before falling back to earth. Last week's shoot, bossed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, worked almost exactly as planned. The launching vehicle was a Chrysler-built Army Jupiter beefed up with extra fuel for extra range. Mounted on its massive shoulders were 15 small, solid-fuel rockets arranged to fire in three stages (see diagram). Perched on the nose of the final rocket was the gilded cone itself, Pioneer...
Today, after selling 50 million records (eleven have topped the 1,000,000 mark), Perry the pro is mainly a solid family man. He lives unostentatiously at Sands Point, L.I., has few cronies and owns but two cars, a Cadillac and a Thunderbird. His wife Roselle, whom he married 25 years ago in Canonsburg, does the cooking; he sometimes dries the dishes. His interests are golf (high 70s) and his three children. Chief entertainment: watching TV while sprawled on a couch in his den, and writing congratulatory telegrams to TV comedians...
...been an investigative reporter for a long time," says Reporter Trimble, "and some things just smell. You know there's something boiling away under the surface if you can just take time to dig it out." After his solid series of solid beats, Scripps-Howard has given Trimble plenty of time. Sprung from his desk...
...share, v. 8? in 1957. Stock issued at $1 per share in 1956 was selling around $25 per share last week. To boost earnings this year, Bob Rod is counting on new ideas. Among them: an ultrasonic whistle that will increase or decrease the rate at which solid fuel in missiles burns, control its thrust. (Sound waves shot through a material accelerate many chemical reactions, including combustion...