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...later barnstormed with his wife as wing-walker. Wally himself soloed at 16, and went into naval aviation soon after graduation from Annapolis. He flew 90 combat missions in Korea, shot down one MIG and scored one "possible." On the first unsuccessful attempt to launch Gemini 6, when the Titan booster belched smoke and flames without lifting off, Schirra correctly decided that there was no danger of an explosion. He made a split-second decision not to damage the spacecraft by pulling the seat-ejection ring. A few days later, Gemini 6, still intact, carried him aloft to achieve...
...generation of museumgoers. This generation grew up looking at abstract expressionism, and although it has no difficulty in accepting Kline's premises, it has grown vastly more critical of his output. O.K., the newcomers say, strolling from picture to picture, we all know he was a landmark, a titan, a pioneer. But did he paint good abstractions or bad ones...
After further testing, the 2,800-mile-range Poseidon will go into 31 of the nation's fleet of 41 ballistic-missile sub marines, which now carry the Polaris. Minuteman III will replace 700 Minuteman I's (currently operational along with Minuteman II and Titan II) in hardened silos. Poseidon may carry as many as ten separately targetable warheads, and Minuteman perhaps three, along with decoy chaff and penetration devices to fool enemy anti-ballistic mis sile systems. Together, they could raise the U.S. single-strike capability to a formidable maximum of 7,500 nuclear warheads...
...directions are in Latin, the musical indications are in Italian, so the libretto should be in-right, ancient Greek. The plot is Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the story of a Titan who was chained to a rock in Scythia, so the setting should be-right, a jungle...
...Boston Globe phrased it nicely: "The titan of international architecture, harmonizer of the social, industrial, physical and esthetic needs of modern man, is building a pigsty." Admitted Architect Walter Gropius, 84, explaining why a man who designed the Bauhaus and Boston Center would stoop to a pigsty: "I lost a bet." The bet, he added, was with Friend Philip Rosenthal, owner of the Rosenthal China Co., who brought out a line of china that Gropius was willing to bet would not sell well. The architect offered to pay off in a new home for Rosenthal's porker Roro. Rosenthal...