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...Instant Thrust. The Navy first hit full speed with the Polaris system early last year, after it ditched the idea of adapting the Army's bulky liquid-fuel Jupiter for shipboard use. As Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke said, the Navy needed "an IRBM with salt water in its veins." Burke picked peppery, redheaded Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 52, to run the Polaris program, tossed Raborn a bankroll of $37 million for a start. "Red" Raborn, who moves so fast that he will only drink instant coffee (and sometimes a Scotch-and-water), rounded...
...probably make its first flight to the edge of space in less than a year. Made of stainless steel to resist heat, it is a stubby-winged airplane only 50 ft. long, weighing about 33,000 Ibs. when fully fueled. Its single rocket engine has 60,000 Ibs. of thrust and is capable of lifting it off the ground like a ballistic missile...
...giant Radio Corporation of America (1957 sales: $1.18 billion) has been fencing with the Justice Department in a series of antitrust matches. RCA, leading the industry in research, has been nicked by several actions designed to break its dominance of the electronics field. Last week the Government thrust hard to end the contest once...
...pressure inside the rocket falls abruptly. The fuel stops burning, and the thrust drops to zero. If this kind of cutoff is not accurate enough, small vernier rockets can be used to give the proper amount of extra push. Or retrorockets thrusting in reverse can shave a few feet per second off the rocket's speed...
Into the Wastebasket. Such successes have thrust Getty into the public spotlight-and he is not sure he likes the glare. His wealth attracts about 1,000 letters a week from people who want money. Getty reads most of the letters himself, throws them into the wastebasket. The only recorded instance in which Paul Getty has ever loosened his purse strings was the donation of $500,000 worth of art from his collection (now housed in a special museum wing of his 64-acre seaside ranch at Malibu, Calif.) to the Los Angeles County Museum. Everyone automatically assumed there...