Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of Khrushchev and Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled...
Recently, several drug firms produced a "super-aspirin"-a combination of aspirin and a small amount of steroid hormones -which is being publicized as a spectacular remedy for arthritis...
...Less spectacular but not less important gadgets measure the performance of fabrics, plastics, ceramics, alloys and an endless assortment of the electrical nerves and senses that proliferate through modern aircraft. Helicopter rotors spin in test cells that look like oil storage tanks; wind tunnels roar and rumble, solving the endless problems of aerodynamics...
Desert Rocket Range. Holloman is a dreary post in an alkali-dusted desert, but some of the Air Force scientists' most spectacular achievements have been accomplished there. From a tall steel tower Aerobee rockets scream into the sky, carrying instruments to explore the boundaries of space. Sixty Aerobees have been fired, carrying 150-lb. payloads to 70 miles. The new Aerobee-Hi (two have been fired) carries the same load to 150 miles. The Aerobees are research rockets, not weapons, but Holloman also tests moderate-range guided missiles...
...Less spectacular was John Winthrop's pin in the 130 class. Winthrop was shut out in the Amherst match, but recovered from a slow start to score heavily against M.I.T.'s Ortler, on an escape...