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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Advanced Spacecraft Technology Division at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the lifeboat is a rigid 400-lb. fiber glass shell lined with polyurethane foam and shaped like an old French bathtub-narrower at one end than at the other. It is 6 ft. long, 4| ft. wide, 21 ft. deep. Sheathed in a Johnson-designed nylon heat shield for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, the craft is equipped with a swivel-mounted retrorocket, attitude-control jets, a transponder for ground control, a built-in oxygen supply, a parachute and a survival kit. Johnson envisions a typical...
...rocks and minerals contain a small impurity of uranium, which fissions (splits), leaving tiny scars or tracks inside the substance. Until recently, this phenomenon remained unobserved. Walker found that even with an electron microscope the fossil tracks were too tiny-.001 of an inch long and only ten atoms wide-to see in significant numbers...
...Conductor Robert Craft and Director Bodo Igesz made the most of the fact that Cardillac is swifter and more dramatic than Hin demith's later operas. The elements cooperated too: distant thunder rumbled over the Rio Grande Valley as a vengeful Paris mob killed Cardillac, and through the wide opening at the rear of the stage, the near-capacity audience of 1,100 could see lightning flickering above the blue Jemez Mountains. Hin demith's complex melodies were traced with clarity and polish by a well-schooled, predominantly American cast, notably Baritone John Reardon, whose demented Cardillac...
Other companies, such as Wurlitzer Co. and Chicago Musical Instrument Co., have diversified into a variety of musical instruments, but Aeolian has stuck to its specialty and produced some 700 kinds of pianos, more than any other company. For all its wide range, there is no compromise with tradition. As one Aeolian executive describes piano-making: "Anything different from what Grandpa built is suspect...
Something for Sportsmen. What really saved BMW was a management shuffle in 1961-62. The new team included Director Paul Hahnemann, 53, in charge of production and sales, a former Opel man. Looking for a car with popular appeal, he discovered a wide space between the cheap small cars and fat sedans, decided to move into the middle-price range and catch buyers willing to pay a bit more for styling and speed. On the road since 1962, the "New Class" line of cars, so named for its appeal to the modern German, comes in four basic models...