Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After making successful static tests, Cape Canaveral's Air Force missileers scheduled the first launching (limited range) of the U.S.'s newest "second generation" ICBM, the two-stage, 9,500-mile Titan (TIME, Oct. 13). But the big (90 ft., 110 tons) job never got off the ground: malfunction kicked in a "fail-safe" mechanism that automatically shut off the first-stage propulsion system seconds after it began to fire. Still, in the light of a fast-growing technology, backed by last week's huge achievements, the U.S. knew better than to condemn Titan on the strength...
...turning out bumper crops and the state can store some grain, the state will be able to buy "wherever it is cheaper." This year's decision to break up the state Motor Tractor Stations and sell their equipment to collectives, he said, "marks the beginning of a new stage in economic relations between the state and collective farms. Henceforth, the principle of free sale of produce will be extended," and prices are due for a fall...
Nine years away from the West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan. At 44, comely Sarah will be one of the oldest of 32 London Peters (among them: Elsa Lanchester, Edna Best) to flit across the Darling's nursery, nonetheless seemed ready to navigate her nearly 600 yds. of flying weekly in the sentimental old wheeze. Sure to be on hand for the opening: her parents. Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, who booked eight seats...
...Chrismah" (contraction of Christmas and Chanukkah)-a watch-charm ornament combining the cross and the Star of David ("Symbolizes Unity of World's Religion"), advertised as "worn and cherished by people of all faiths . . . royalty, leading government officials, prominent businessmen, also movie, stage and TV stars." Price...
...best private coeducational colleges. But its slim endowment of $8,500,000 places it among the respectable poor of good U.S. educational institutions. Carleton's top professors are paid meagerly, its physics and biology facilities are old and cramped, its students need dormitories, and its only stage is a makeshift affair in a 110-seat basement theater. To mend the bare spots in its academic Mackinaw, Carleton has set itself an enormous task for so small a college: to raise $10 million in the next four years...