Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telemetry data, film sequences and fragments of wreckage dipped from the shallow waters off the cape, missilemen managed to figure out what went wrong: the loft. long fiber glass "nose fairing" that was supposed to protect the third stage and payload from air friction and buffeting in the upper atmosphere fell off prematurely, after 40 seconds instead of the programed 4½ minutes. Then the fierce drag of the atmosphere wrenched the payload-carrying third stage loose, made the second stage malfunction...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration have already been assigned to other urgent space programs, and NASA has no spare funds to order additional Atlases. The bigger space vehicles that NASA has under development will not be ready for launching for more than a year: Vega (Atlas plus upper stages) in 1961, Centaur (Atlas plus more powerful upper stages) in 1962, Saturn (eight Jupiters clustered together) in 1963, Nova (giant single-chamber rocket) in the mid-1960s...
Until MacLeish's recovery, his writing course, English Sa, will be continued by Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English. Humanities 136, MacLeish's upper level General Education course, formerly given in conjunction with the lecture series, will be continued by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...
Harvard has the upper hand in these negotiations and must first have a guarantee that most of the mentioned handicaps could be readily overcome and that the assured minimum rental would be sufficient to help Harvard athletics substantially. Only with these guarantees, should Harvard even consider the offer...
When Phillip was born in the West Texas town of Kermit (pop. 7,000), doctors soon saw that nature had made a series of deadly mistakes. Milk could not reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel...