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...Advance Research Projects Agency, thinks that as little as 200,000 Ibs. might be enough. German-born Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, of Bell Aircraft Corp., compromises for 440,000 Ibs. This is not far above the thrust (360,000 Ibs.) of the Air Force's still unproven Atlas and Titan missiles...
Coach Norm Shepard, whose main worry to date has been an unproven pitching staff, will start righthander Dave Brigham on the mound against the Jumbos. Brigham turned in some good pitching on the recent southern trip and worked well in several relief jobs last season, but never reached top form as a starter...
...heart of the growing field of aviation research and development. On the basis of his flying experience and his engineering background, he got a coveted job as test pilot at Ohio's Wright Field; there he flew anything that came along, frequently five or six new and unproven planes a day, all the way up to the B-17 which was then in modest production. He moved on to Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School (mornings devoted to intricate work in the classrooms; afternoons to project work in the wind tunnel, propeller and engine test labs...
...unproven but experienced Crimson basketball team should open its season in winning fashion tonight when it encounters a weak Wesleyan five, at 8:15 in the Alumni Field House at Middletown, Conn...
...with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates his fictional eccentrics with spiked nonfictional vignettes presumably drawn from his own true life, e.g., Saroyan as Tom Sawyer wriggling his canny way past movie ushers for free, Saroyan as a struggling "unproven" artist peddling vegetables during the Depression, Saroyan as a proven artist holding a copy of his first book ("I was so excited I couldn't roll a Bull Durham cigarette"). ""Voyald," pontificates Saroyan to all who might be mystified by this title, "is a way of saying 'Void...