Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the guarded doors, Military Specialist Mahon and his committee had heard facts about U.S. missiles that for a long time have been smothered in security and distorted by political wrangling and unseemly interservice bickering. Most solid piece of news: the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, while still in the testing stage, has proved its reliability, is already on a production-line basis (TIME, Nov. 25), and production can be speeded promptly...
Where did Squillante's power lie? Perched on the witness chair, the tiny, bespectacled racketeer politely pulled the Fifth Amendment to more than 100 questions, but the committee's evidence appeared to be solid enough. As a member of the so-called Mafia (the ancient Sicilian vendetta society that some authorities claim is running U.S. racketeering), Squillante always managed to avoid deep trouble, although his address book produced the names of such crooks as Joey Surprise, Nanny the Geep and Joe Stutz. He got caught only once, on an income-tax rap. He solved that, the committee charged...
...career? Not at all. He is determined to go on composing serious music ("I cannot live without it"). He even hopes to get in a musical comedy occasionally, but with the time and trouble required for Broadway productions, "it will have to be put off a while-a good, solid while...
...Solids to the Fore. To be used in liquid-fueled rockets, both fuel and oxydizer must be liquid and thin enough to be pumped rapidly. This rules out promising materials, e.g., boron itself and many of its compounds, that are not liquid at ordinary temperatures. One way around this difficulty is to grind them finely and mix them with a liquid carrier to form a paintlike slurry. The most radical way is to burn them as solids with a solid oxydizer. Through this technique, a long list of new high-energy materials can be used...
This is the world of Jay and Mary Follet, and of their two small children, Rufus and Catherine. A few streets away live uncles and cousins and grandparents. A few miles out in the country is another solid cluster of relatives, and up in the timeless hills survive even more ancient progenitors. Safe, warm, sweet almost to the point of cloying, this is a world nourished on love, protected by kindness, impervious to small failures or vaulting ambition. It is shattered by the sudden, meaningless death of Jay Follet in an auto accident...