Word: vii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exit Society. Most U.S. heiresses got either what they wanted or what they deserved. At the hub of their international set was the portly, roguish Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and moneyed maidens with broad Midwestern accents found Queen Victoria's son much more democratic than Manhattan's formidable Mrs. Astor and her chosen 400. At one time, the prince was much smitten by a Cleveland-born Miss Chamberlain. She reportedly cooled his ardors with...
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...with the most successful flights yet of an air-launched ballistic missile and a Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Items: ¶Up from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral and into orbit from the tip of a four-stage Army Juno II rocket curved the 91½-lb. Explorer VII. By far the most sophisticated U.S. satellite, it is crammed with instruments that will chemically identify and count heavy particles of cosmic rays (knowledge that is crucial to manned space flight), study the transfer of heat from tropics to polar regions and from the earth back into space (which...
...Within hours of the Explorer VII firing, and not far away, a B-47 bomber rose seven miles above the Atlantic. It hovered off the Florida coast until the orbiting Explorer VI was passing overhead; then the three-man crew launched a two-stage, solid-fuel Bold Orion missile...
...formed in 1505 by Pope Julius II. who gave Switzerland the honor of supplying 200 mercenaries as his personal bodyguard, the corps was almost wiped out 22 years later when Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked Rome. In a short, vicious fight, 147 Swiss were killed, successfully defending Clement VII. The guard has not fought another major battle, but ever since has set itself such Spartan, fiercely loyal standards that even a U.S. Marine drill instructor might blink...