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...themselves as real individuals with the same rights as their elders. And yet 54 per cent of the voting age population in Cambridge are between 18 and 34. Approximately 80 per cent of the 18-34 year olds do not live with relatives in Cambridge isee Census publication PC(V2)-23 (Revised)). Compare these figures with the 7 per cent of the voting age population that are black. Why shouldn't the 40 per cent that are the young who have not lived here all their lives also be a strong neighborhood? does it really matter that they live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTIONS | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

...inspired by The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, a booklet published in 1923 by Rumanian Professor Hermann Oberth. German rocketeers eventually constructed a liquid-fuel rocket strikingly similar to Goddard's. By 1942, under the direction of Walter Dornberger and Wernher Von Braun, it had evolved into the dread V2, the first space-age rocket. After the successful test-firing of the V2, Dornberger turned to Von Braun and shouted exultantly: "Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...rocket and its designers eventually helped launch both the U.S. and the Russian missile programs, as well as the moon race that was to follow. Even today's liquid-fuel rockets are simply highly evolved descendants of that original V2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Oerter 206-6* 205-5V2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: U.S. MEN'S OLYMPIC TRACK TEAM' | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Chemical Corp. explained some of the tricks that are used to make solid rockets behave. One method, he said, is to put vanes in the gas jet. When their angles are changed, they deflect the stream of gas like a rudder. This system was used on the German wartime V2, but the vanes add a lot of drag, and they must be made of highly heat-resistant material if they are to last even the few minutes needed to do their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solid-Fuel Controls | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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