Word: vanguard
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...liberal Protestant Christian Century headed its editorial page last week with a blast from the Rev. Charles Duell Kean of Washington's Episcopal Church of the Epiphany against the U.S. Navy for attaching a St. Christopher medal to its successful Vanguard satellite-bearing rocket. "Would it have served just as well." demanded Dr. Kean, "if along with the countdown routine, a man had been assigned at each stage in the process to cross his fingers and say 'Muggles'? Had anyone thought of attaching a four-leaf clover to the missile somewhere? The fact that a symbol...
...turned out. its orbit, coursing an ellipse from 110 miles at its perigee to 1,735 miles at apogee at a top speed of 18,850 m.p.h.. was less than Army scientists had hoped for-and as much as 700 miles inside the Navy's grapefruit-sized Vanguard. Early calculations showed that Explorer III might last for only a few days. Later, as the missile scientists labored over their instruments, corrections gave the Army hopes that Explorer III will stay in orbit for at least three months and perhaps...
...civilian figures, under NACA Director Hugh L. Dryden. For a starter, the Defense Department laid aside $8,000,000 and started plans for the first series of lunar probes. The Army will undertake one, perhaps two, using modified Jupiter rockets; the Air Force, with a combination of Thor and Vanguard components, will take on three. The Navy's job: development of a mechanical "ground-scanning" system for use by the Army and Air Force machines...
...Moscow knew that the Central Committee had held a decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet...
Fellow Travelers. Following the satellite through space is the empty third-stage rocket, which was separated from it by a clockwork device that released a weak spring and pushed the two bodies apart. Dr. John P. Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, says that satellite and rocket are still moving apart slowly. The rocket, which has an irregular shape, will be more strongly affected by such little air resistance as there is even at orbit's perigee and will therefore be the first to drop back into the atmosphere and vaporize. But this will not happen for a long time...