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Spin-Stabilization. All other hardware seems to have functioned perfectly. The second stage, a considerably modified second stage of the ill-starred Vanguard, pushed the vehicle to 188 miles above the earth while small vernier rockets, set askew, made it spin on its axis at no r.p.m. The function of this spin-stabilization, like the spin of a rifle bullet, was to keep the vehicle from tumbling on its journey through space...
...train scraped and groaned to a stop, and out climbed the vanguard of 900 solemn men, women and children, arms laden with bundles, eyes filled with bewilderment and doubt. What they saw gave them no cause for rejoicing: a bleak wilderness surrounded by stern, snowcapped mountains, and in the wilderness a dismal tent city sprawling in the mud under a dour sky. This was the Matanuska Valley, 50 miles northeast of Anchorage, in south-central Alaska. This was the promised land-promised by the wide-eyed Federal Emergency Relief Administration to depression-ridden, red-blooded American families who wanted...
...abortive effort to place a 20-in. weather satellite into orbit, the Navy's hard-luck Vanguard rocket belched flames and steam, rose three-quarters of an inch off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, then settled gently back into place. Because of a "random failure," the first-stage rocket engine had shut off automatically just in time to prevent Vanguard from toppling over and exploding, saving it to fly again another day. Vanguard's sorry record to date: seven tries, six failures...
...Navy launched yesterday morning a 21 1/2-pound satellite equipped to study weather patterns and cloud cover on the earth. Strong signals were received from the satellite at several tracking stations, but there is doubt in the mind of Vanguard chief scientist John P. Hagan that the satellite is still orbiting...
...crowded hour with popular classes. The two hundred and twenty-five elect who made it into Comp Lit 166 will file into Longfellow Alumnae with a sizeable vanguard of embittered auditors to hear Professor Guerard launch his whirlwind tour of modern novels from Bovary to Absolom. Fieser, Krall, et al, will start their annual purge of Harvard's pre-med ranks in Mallinc-krodt MB9. Expressly designed to separate the men from the boys, Chem 20 will again swell the number of English concentrators...