Word: stools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its stiltlike legs and bulging dome, the ungainly contraption looked like a basketball balanced on a bar stool. But the strange rocket that the Navy unveiled last week at its China Lake (Calif.) Ordnance Test Station comes closest yet to solving one of the most difficult problems of space travel: how to make a soft landing on the moon or some even more distant airless planet...
...make such soft landings on their own. Later models will need stabilizing devices to take the place of guide cables. They will also need sensitive instruments to gauge the diminishing distance to the ground. But when such tricky gadgets have been developed, a descendant of the weird bar-stool-and-basketball may some day descend gently on the rugged surface of the moon...
...safety in the embassy, Mallin was able to put together the story of Castro's police-state terror during the invasion crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans...
...Roman Catholic priest, well known both for his courage (he was captured with the paratroopers) and for his bitter opposition to Castro, appeared as a blubbering stool pigeon. "I am completely sorry for what has happened, and I ask the Cuban people to accept my sorrow," he said. "The Americans forced me to do it." Said an invasion survivor, watching the performance on TV in Miami: "I know that man like a brother. He might have been drugged...
Cold Storage. Tito dropped off tokens of his esteem at every stop. Nkrumah got a movie projector and reels of film about Yugoslavia, gave his bemedaled guest a symbolic golden stool in return. More substantial largesse included a promise to help build a naval base for Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little...