Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting at Winthrop Rockefeller's Winrock Farm in Arkansas, ex-Opera Tenor James Melton accepted, wound up selling his whole shebang of oldtime Americana to the host. Melton's collection, one of the finest privately owned "autoramas" in existence, includes both antique and classic cars, an 1829 steam locomotive, an 1893 steam-driven stage coach, enough other bric-a-brac to extend its inventory to 30 pages. Estimated price on the lot: about $250,000. Rockefeller will house the collection in a special building to be erected at Winrock Farm, charge admission fees, which will...
...children grow less dependent on her, Suburbia's housewife fills her newfound time with a dizzying assortment of extracurricular projects that thrust her full steam into community life. Beyond the home-centered dinner parties, Kaffeeklatsches and card parties, there is a directory-sized world of organizations devised for husbands as well as for wives (but it is the wife who keeps things organized). In New Jersey's Levittown, a projected 16,000-unit replica of the Long Island original, energetic suburbanites can sign up for at least 35 different organizations from the Volunteer Fire Department to the Great...
...event, Rathmann earned $44,000 (plus an estimated $15,000 in endorsements and personal appearances) and the right to paint "No. 1" on the side of his car until the next 500. Said the ex-Bridesmaid of the Brickyard: "Ward's car seemed to have more steam than mine, but I just kept pushing him close. I don't believe in hard braking when you're trying to catch someone. I ran flat...
...Gulf Oil Corp. Showing budding financial genius, Evans rented Gulf stock from Mellon at 3% interest, used the stock as collateral to borrow money to play the market. His profits he plowed back into Gulf stock, used his returns to buy into H. K. Porter, a faltering manufacturer of steam locomotives. By 1939 Porter was forced into bankruptcy, and Evans became president when it was reorganized...
Moon Orbiters. Preparations for one of those systems are under full steam at the Space Technology Laboratory, which will have two tries next fall at putting a satellite in orbit around the moon. Boosted away from earth by an Atlas missile and two smaller upper-stage rockets, the moon satellite will weigh 350-400 Ibs. It will be spin-stabilized by ten small rockets and will get electric power for its instruments and controls from four paddle-wheels covered with 8,800 solar cells. All this has become standard U.S. practice. What is novel about the moon orbiter...