Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could legally crowd in under present zoning laws. Taking aim at an antiquated zoning code, the survey recommended: ¶ A quick halt to the conversion of apartments to rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses; for example, buildings with extra-sized plaza space would be allowed floor space beyond the prescribed limits. ¶ Reduction of commercial acreage by almost 50%, with emphasis on unsightly and inconvenient "ribbon" business districts lining block after block of arterial streets in residential neighborhoods. ¶ Better zoning for the needs of heavy industry to keep scattered houses...
...then a careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...
...full design weight of 21.5 Ibs., settled into an orbit slightly higher than had been expected. Its perigee (lowest point) is 347 miles above the earth; its apogee (highest point) is 2,065 miles. Its batteries will go dead in about two weeks. But unless some future space-cleaning agency removes it as a menace to astronavigation, Vanguard II itself will probably orbit silently for at least a century...
...reason for this shining success after so many failures is buried in Washington's jungle of bureaucracy. The firing was postponed from December to February on orders of Dr. Keith Glennan, head of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which took the program over from the Navy. Every detail of the launching vehicle was examined critically, but whether major changes were made is not clear. There were few changes of personnel. Long-suffering Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard program from its beginning, remained in charge. When he reported to the House space committee...
...satellite, a magnesium sphere with a surface of silicon monoxide to keep it at proper temperature in sun or shadow, was put into a spin of about 50 r.p.m. The spin made it act like a gyroscope, keeping its axis always pointing in the same direction in space. At its perigee, the axis is parallel to the earth's surface. But a quarter of a revolution later the axis points vertically at the earth (see diagram). At apogee, the axis is parallel again...