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...were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past year; so has General Tire & Rubber Co., which owns 95% of another rocket enginemaker, Aerojet General Corp. Thiokol Chemical Corp. has trebled in value in a little over a year, hit $70.50 a share last week before backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Rocket's Red Glare | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Fons made no error. He was whipping along at more than 90 m.p.h. when a tire blew. The Ferrari flattened a milestone, caromed off a telephone pole and somersaulted into the thick crowd that lined the curb. Alfonso de Portago could do nothing to save himself, or his co-driver, who was cut in half, or the 15 spectators (including four children) who were killed with him in the deadly Mille Miglia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thirst for Thrills | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...from the recipient's antibodies. On the basis of such studies, Dr. James B. Dealy Jr. predicted last week that the time is not far off when a replacement organ will be transplanted into an ailing human being with little more difficulty than" it takes to change a tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boston Pioneers | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there are no hex signs on the barns. The men may drink a limited amount on Sunday afternoons. But occasional defectors-young men who tire of the life and marry Mexican women, and Mennonite girls who allow themselves to be spirited off by latter-day Villistas-are ruthlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Wanderers | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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