Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon. The launching again demonstrates to the world the outstanding achievements of Soviet science and technology." The rocket, Moscow added, was a multi-stage rig that weighed 3,245 lbs., with a 796.5-lb. payload of instruments (see SCIENCE) and pennants bearing the U.S.S.R. coat of arms. Its speed: 25,000 m.p.h. The rocket missed the moon by 4,660 miles-about the distance from Moscow to Manhattan...
...Russians launched their Sputnik III on May 15, 1958, rocket experts have known that they had the potential ability to toss a good-sized bird out of the earth's gravitational field. To put a satellite on a nearby orbit around the earth takes only about 25% less speed than the escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.) that will free it from the earth. All the Russians needed to do was to increase slightly the power of Sputnik Ill's launching rockets or to reduce its final weight. U.S. failure to reach the moon was mainly...
Bill Frazer hopes for more letters. A reply from Admiral Kurita would be particularly valuable; he has been criticized for turning back into San Bernardino Strait, north of Samar when he might have dealt a telling blow to a U.S. force inferior in speed and firepower. But Shima offers the schoolboy historian an understandable summing up of Japanese hesitancy at Leyte: "A further defeat meant to Japan no longer incidental losses but loss of life itself...
Under this system, division heads and Cordiner himself are "freed up"-Cordiner's favorite expression-to concentrate on long-range planning. Gone are assistants, coordinators and committees. Says Cordiner: "G.E. has no place for committees as decision-making bodies. A committee moves at the speed of its least informed member and too often is used as a way of sharing irresponsibility...
Supposing such an alliance could be formed, there remains the question of whether the end is worth such unfortunate means. More important, it is uncertain whether such a display of moral unity would speed integration or merely create more regionalism in southern education...