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...Launching of the big-thrust Saturn vehicle, now under development by the NASA team headed by ex-German Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
...sympathetic House committee, Dr. Hugh Dryden, NASA's deputy administrator, reported that NASA's original budget request of $923 million had been cut to $802 million by the Budget Bureau. But because of a quickened interest in speeding up such essential big-thrust engines as Saturn, said he, the President would shortly ask Congress for an additional $100 million...
...soon as they come in contact. After the first stage burns out, a small charge of solid propellant flares up and generates gas that runs a turbine and pumps the liquid fuels into the Agena's combustion chamber. They start burning immediately, giving 15,000 lbs. of thrust...
...Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...
...presence of bright Faculty lights gives the lecture system some value, but either the lecture system is not as good as it should be, or it has been thrust too far into the foreground of our educational practices. The Innocent will bless the men who are willing and able to teach in a lower level natural sciences course, or do a good job with an important introductory "survey," but confound the men who drone through the petrified information on their dog-eared three-by-five cards year after year, or recite from their glittering galley-proofs until the Dean...