Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, Wernher von Braun's reach for the stars was accepted as more science than science fiction. In the summer of 1954 Von Braun and a dozen other space enthusiasts from the services and industry gathered in the Washington office of Lieut. Commander George Hoover, U.S.N., to talk about launching a satellite. Von Braun proposed to slam a 5-lb. chunk of metal into orbit with the brute force of a souped-up Redstone; the Office of Naval Research kicked in $88,000 for work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived...
...Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...
Along Yugoslavia's wild coast of Dalmatia, the test of a man is his ability to pull an oar. In the balmy Adriatic summer the test comes rarely. But in winter, the cold bora wind sweeps down from the mountains, battering the little fishing boats with gusts that reach 120 m.p.h., and the lives of the whole crew depend on their oars...
...patients treated since the late summer of 1955 at Frankfurt's University Medical Clinic, said Dr. Pfeiffer, 78% achieved good control of their diabetes, and the benefit shows every sign of lasting. (Tolbutamide is not a substitute for the body's natural insulin. It apparently achieves its effect by boosting the release into the blood stream of insulin, which, in most adult patients, continues to be secreted by the pancreas.) Tolbutamide did no good from the start in 8% of cases. In a further 8% it had to be dropped because early good results wore...
...theater owners, 1957 started well enough. Average weekly attendance was up as high as 6.2% in the first six months, compared to the previous year. Then a summer decline set in that was drastically accelerated by the fall deluge of television movies. In the last six months of 1957, attendance fell as much as 17.5% below 1956 figures. Box-office business will probably get worse if post-1948 films are peddled to television in the same volume as their predecessors. Some 300 post-1948 movies have already been sold down the channel, including such quality films as High Noon. This...