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...touched off their newest giant skyrocket with a propaganda torch, highlighting the sad fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites (XX and XXI) served to dramatize the U.S. lag in the big boost...
...experimented with everything from impressionism to symbolism, but he could not abide artists who fastened themselves to one school and then repeated themselves until death. "All rules, all canons of art belch death," he said, and even the famous art circle he helped found in Brussels-Les XX, the most avant-garde bunch of its day-was sometimes too shattered by his paintings to exhibit them. As for the critics, they were perpetually outraged. "Mere daubings!" complained the Gazette. "Come, come," cried Le Patriot, "it's garbage...
...will soon retire after 33 years in the uniform McCarthy said (quite wrongly, of course) that he was "unfit to wear." Since the McCarthy demagoguery, Zwicker won a second star, served as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in the Far East, is now commander of the Ohio-based XX Army Corps...
...ties. McCarthy called him "not fit to wear that uniform," hounded him so unendurably in committee hearings and on the Senate floor that the Army counterattacked in the battle that led to the Senate resolution censuring McCarthy in December 1954. Zwicker is now a major general, commander of the XX Reserve Corps. *The nays, aside from Morse: Alaska's E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina...
Superspeed Film. Eastman Kodak Co. put on sale a new roll film in 35-mm., 620 and 120 sizes that is twice as fast as Kodak's Super-XX. The new TriX film will take indoor snapshots with ordinary light, night sports events without flash. Price: same as Kodak's Super-XX...