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...nation's longest pipeline system, will go into manufacturing of solid rocket fuels and solid-propellant rocket engines. It is closing deal to swap $6,000,000 worth of stock for control of Grand Central Rocket Co. of Redlands, Calif., which is building third-stage rocket for Vanguard earth-satellite...
Navy's lagging Vanguard. He figured that the IRBM rivalry between the Air Force Thor and the Army Jupiter had gone so far, taken so long and cost so much that both should be put into production. McElroy upgraded Deputy Assistant Secretary William Holaday to the post of missile boss. To those who doubted Holaday's ability, McElroy also let it be known that the Pentagon's real missile boss was Neil McElroy...
...friend Billy Hembree, 17, were sent to a hospital last week with minor injuries after trying to fly their do-it-yourself rocket, a 2-ft. copper tube filled with a mixture of zinc dust and sulphur. They lit it and ran. "It was just like the Flopnik [Vanguard]," said Billy, "going great at first. Then it just folded." When they returned to investigate, the rocket exploded. Johnny and Billy were lucky; a few weeks earlier, Science Teacher Garland Foster of the Floydada, Texas high school was killed while demonstrating a somewhat smaller rocket...
...contact has been made by the University with these intrepid and hard-working Crimeds, although some have suggested messages be placed in the Vanguard, which could be aimed at Russia. The Faculty, sympathizing with the students' display of devotion, has excused them from classes for several months...
...informal nightspots are cashing in (TIME. May 27). What brings full basements (legal limit: 80 customers) to the Downstairs these nights is a small, eccentric troupe of humorists who put on one of Manhattan's first successful nightclub song-and-satire revues in 15 years, recalling the Village Vanguard's famed Revuers, with Judy Holliday...