Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Gang's All Here. Although the authors (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) insist that they have not confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth...
If money can buy success, Actor-Producer John Wayne's Texas-sized epic, The Alamo, should be a smash; the $8,000,000 budget includes a full-scale replica of the famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed...
Space flight is a quantum jump in technology. Behind its thunderous engines and jewel-like instruments lie thousands of jobs of research, each calling for patient, often frustrating experiments. Major U.S. center for this sort of basic work is a quiet laboratory nestled against the San Gabriel Mountains on the...
Many J.P.L. experiments seem unspectacular. One lab is studying the behavior of solid fuels that will burn at the low pressure that rockets encounter at the outer fringes of the atmosphere. A huddle of men in blue smocks stare at a mirror next to a thick window set in a...
But J.P.L.'s men are dealing with forces and conditions no man had dreamed of only a few years ago. This week it unveiled a new wind tunnel that pushes the air at the fantastic rate of Mach 9 (6,670 m.p.h. at 32° F.). It will be...