Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minuteman. Most promising solid-fuel rocket is the Minuteman, the Air Force's long-range (6,300 miles) missile. Not much has been revealed officially, but an air of success hangs around men who are working on it. Much smaller than its rivals, the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, it has three stages filled with fuel made mostly of a rubbery plastic holding together crystals of an oxygen-supplying material, such as ammonium perchlorate. The ingredients are first blended to form a semiliquid mass like peanut butter. This is pumped with extreme care into the rocket casing and cured...
...Howell Associates, a firm that specializes in finding executives for business and industry. Ward Howell invited suggestions from Leonard Bernstein, Rudolf Bing, Sir Thomas Beecham, et al. With a list of 35 candidates to work from, the firm set up interviews, started vetting applicants on the basis of previous success, experience and age-35 to 50 preferred. The rigid combination of musical and managerial talent proved hard to find: one candidate, a lawyer, was washed out because he was high on executive ability but low on musical experience; an opera-company director knew his music thoroughly but seemed a poor...
While the rookies develop and gain game experience, the team will be seriously hampered by the graduation of Dave Veitze, Bud Hizginbottom, and Dick Fischer, the starting line a year ago. However, Weiland feels, if the Crimson can get through its opening contests with reasonable success, it has an excellent chance to regain the Ivy League title...
Other libraries, such as the Radcliffe Library, already use a system of this type with great success. After a decade of generally successful operation, Lamont and its policies should be examined--and one of the most fruitful changes could come in the reserve system...
...apprentice for the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, leaving two years later as city hall and courthouse reporter. In September, 1949, he took the job as education writer for the Hartford Times, and, after a year and a half, moved to the copy desk. Eight months later, "I made a success of myself and became a sports writer...