Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race for space, military honors are just as likely to go to an officer who is as much at home behind a physics book as he is behind a gun. Last week President Eisenhower set up for promotion two of the Armed Services' brightest new scientific lights...
...regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward was handed his job in R. & D. when the Navy created the division in 1957, has since been one of the strongest proponents of a unified national space program...
...Austin-Healey Sprite, a junior edition of the popular Austin-Healey 100 sports car. It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795. Another entry: the handsome AC Aceca hardtop coupé that seats two with plenty of luggage space, goes 106 m.p.h., and costs around...
...force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot, remained low man on the totem pole when it came to supplies. He was virtually pushed into retirement days before war ended and did not even get the courtesy of space on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered...
Reading, study and office space will be available in the new structure, which will have three floors of stack room below ground and two stories above the surface. A gift of $275,000 from the James Foundation of New York City has made immediate construction possible...