Word: thor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fulfilled was the Air Force's prayerful hope: Thor, at long last, had been successfully fired. A special top-level Defense Department committee, set up to settle the rivalry between Thor and its Army counterpart, Jupiter, was pondering whether to scrap one of the two intermediate-range (1,500-mile) ground-to-ground ballistic missiles or combine them in a hybrid with the best features of both. The Army made much of the fact that the less complex Jupiter had performed well in tests, while Thor, in its three tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third...
...runs the Peninsula Festival, the Cincinnati Symphony's energetic Conductor Thor Johnson, 44, tries to present "musical experiences that are not included in wintertime concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann...
...bitter and expensive interservice rivalry, retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson last week ordered a capable three-man committee to merge the Army's experimental Jupiter and the Air Force's Thor into a single intermediate-range ( 1, 500-mile) ballistics missile. The multimillion-dollar marriage brokers: Major General John B. Medaris. boss of the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal; Major General Bernard A. Schriever, boss of the Air Force's ballistics-missile program; and Wilson's special assistant for guided missiles, William M. Holaday, onetime Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc. research director. Wedding date...
...success of their bird over the Air Force's Thor, more ambitiously designed but so far unsuccessfully flown, Army scientists produced a letter carried through space in the Jupiter's nose, jubilantly sent it off to the addressee, Research Boss Medaris, who read it and stuck it in his blouse pocket without revealing its text. Where they had previously conceded that the new mating of Thor and Jupiter might conceivably be called "Thorpiter." Army scientists now were claiming more credit, joked that they would settle for nothing less than "Thupiter...
...baron from Germany," a tall, handsome charmer who was working in his father's chemical business in Chicago. He gave her a family ring with the baronial crest. Then came another tempting offer: a role as "Miss Deepfreeze" in a countrywide promotional tour with three other girls for Thor appliances. "I jumped at it," says Kim. When the tour ended in San Francisco, she headed for Hollywood. Several months later, the baron received a farewell note in verse (the only sample of her verse that Actress Novak will quote...