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...come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours it full of paste-thick fuel. When the building rolls to the next hole, the filled casing is covered with sheet metal and heated by pipes set in the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home of Minuteman | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Thus could we say to those five decades hence, "These have we chosen, these have we honored." And they would know that these men had been the bravest, wisest, and most upright of our time. Our obligation would be fulfilled, our duty done, yet no factional strife would today disturb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

...Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Centro Gallego they broke into the operating room at the very instant when two of our critically wounded were receiving blood transfusions," Castro said. "They yanked them off the tables and, as the wounded could not remain upright, they dragged them down to the basement where they arrived as corpses...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: One-Man Road Show: Fidel Lays Cuba's Plans | 10/9/1959 | See Source »

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