Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mystical and at the same time more realistic-a kind of proud brotherhood, not only with all of Africa, but also with France. "Our fundamental choice," Touré has said, "resides in the entire decolonization of Africa-its men. its economy, its administrative organization, in order to build a solid Franco-African community. Our heart, our reason, even more than our most evident self-interest, makes us choose, without hesitation, interdependence and liberty in this union, rather than a definition of ourselves without France and against France...
Last week the Air Force was highly enthusiastic about this concept. The beauty of ablating materials is the lightness that they allow in a nose cone. A solid-fuel missile like the projected Air Force Minuteman ICBM (due in 1963) would be badly overloaded with a heavy copper nose. Now the Minuteman will reportedly get a sharper, ablative nose, as may later advanced versions of the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, thus returning advanced missilery to orthodox streamlining...
What drives Sam Newhouse is the urge to expand, and last week word leaked out that he was chasing one of the brightest properties in the nation: the Baltimore Sunpapers, which thrive on civic crusades and solid, sober news coverage (six foreign correspondents, a nine-man Washington bureau). Newhouse has offered to buy between 51% and 70% of the stock of A. S. Abell Co., which owns the three papers (morning circ. 196,725; evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager...
Some literary critics carp at the generally moderate fiction and poetry chosen by Review editors. But in an age of painfully intense analysis of fiction and poetry, the Paris Review has scored a solid beat by the simple device of getting away from the library and talking to the authors themselves. Already, Review is the biggest little magazine in history...
BRAINPOWER POOL will be formed by General Motors, Thiokol and Gallery Chemical to pursue spaceship and missiles research. G.M. will contribute its engineering and missiles-guidance know-how, Thiokol will add its solid-fuel savvy, and Gallery will bring the combination considerable experience with high-energy exotic fuels...