Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost in the skies on its way to orbit last May. The Vanguard, the Navy explained, was supposed to have climbed to 300-400 miles, then gone into its orbit. Instead, the second-stage engine failed to cut off, kept the Vanguard going up instead of letting it turn parallel to the earth's surface. When the third stage fired at the wrong angle, the rocket just kept on going-straight up to 2,200 miles. The Navy's reading of Cape Canaveral instruments showed that the satellite landed near the west coast of South Africa...
...Unmet Plane. After the colorful crowds in Negro Africa, De Gaulle flew on to revolt-torn Algeria. This time, in contrast to De Gaulle's two previous visits to Algiers, the right-wing European leaders made no effort to turn out a welcome for the general, and the Committee of Public Safety, which masterminded the Algiers insurrection of last May, pointedly failed to turn out to meet De Gaulle's plane...
Business statistics provided some hindsight last week on just when the economy started to turn around and how fast it is recovering. The recession lost most of its steam during 1958's second quarter. Now, as the National Association of Purchasing Agents said, "business recovery is proceeding slowly, with no great upward surge anticipated in the immediate future." Mileposts...
...world's best. They argue that Japan actually damages its potential U.S. markets with cheap, often shoddy goods copycatted from U.S. or other foreign manufacturers. To U.S. consumers, the label "Made in Japan" frequently acts as a red light that warns of inferior goods. Now Japan wants to turn the light green...
Died. Roger Martin du Gard, 77, French novelist and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, for the ten-volume Les Thibault, a sort of hindsight saga of French life after the turn of the century; in Bellême, France...