Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area's best names have been invited. His classmates, many of them combat veterans, are given to wisecracks about the security net and Ramfis' exalted rank (even though he has temporarily downgraded himself to full colonel while at the staff college). Ramfis' Leavenworth neighbors, a quiet, upper-middle-class group, are jittery over the constant patrolling. "They even flash spotlights into my date's car," lamented a 17-year-old. "I've been embarrassed to death night after night. Is that...
...firing time approached, the bucket, driven by a small electric motor, began to rotate. This motion had the same purpose as the spin of a rifle bullet: to "spin-stabilize" the upper stages of the rocket. It would also check any tendency to veer off course if any of the small rockets in the bucket should ignite later than the others, or burn erratically...
...William H. Pickering, director of the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which developed the upper stages of the launching vehicle, says that the orbit is almost exactly the intended one. The only deviation is that the satellite goes a little higher than was expected. "A splendid orbit," says Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, who designed the instrument package for the satellite. "We are delighted with it." He points out that the principal scientific purpose of the Explorer is to study cosmic rays at various distances from the earth, and it could...
Bill rarely cracked a book outside the classroom, but he graduated at 17 in the upper third of his class. There was nothing to do but hang around the farm until his next birthday, when he would be eligible for a job at Bethlehem Steel. Then, just before the birthday, Bill got a letter from one of his father's friends: How would he like to take advantage of his size and go to work at a race track? Because it seemed as good a way as any to get away from home, Bill boarded a bus for Charles Town...
Mark Frazer, wearing the clothes and upper-class manner of his Cambridge background, goes to his office, does his work, comes home. If asked, he insists that he is unwavering in his support of the Soviet system, and that he would rather live in Moscow than anywhere else in the world. It is either that or the bottle...