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Launched at 10:53 E.D.T., the 20-inch satellite was carried aloft by a Vanguard rocket weighing 22,000 pounds...
True to tradition, Heathcoat (pronounced heth-cut) Amory held aloft Gladstone's frayed red dispatch box as he strode in to members' cheers last week. But as he plunged into his businesslike speech, pausing only at a reference to milk processing to refresh himself with a glass of milk thinly laced with rum and honey,* the House soon realized that the self-effacing Chancellor had produced an even more self-effacing budget. He had decided that Britain was not going to get caught in the American recession, but should not risk trying to expand its economy just...
...another pair of publishing amateurs: President George J. Merrick, 24, a junior executive in an engineering company and Vice President Richard T. Heagy, 26, an English major at Vanderbilt. One quick reform: a boost in page-ad rates from $200 to $1,200. Now that the magazine is aloft and gathering speed, its young staffers are even talking of selling 1,000,000 copies an issue by the end of 1958 Says Space Salesman Heagy: "It doesn't hurt to aim high...
...canvas shows the saint on a rearing horse. The domelike background represents both a scallop shell (one of the symbols of Santiago) and "a whole cathedral surging from the waters." It is strikingly different from the popular Spanish depiction of Santiago as a plumed knight. While the saint waves aloft a figure of Christ instead of a sword, he throws one enormous foot out to the viewer. "It is my foot," says Dali. "I have saintly feet...
...worry over how they will all fit into the crowded air. So far, the businessman's safety record is good, with only i.i fatal accidents per 100,000 aircraft hours v. a rate of .73 per 100,000 for scheduled airlines. Yet, as more and more planes go aloft in all weather, it may get to the point where the nation's airspace must be sectored off like superhighways, one lane for private flyers, another for airlines, and everything run under strict instrument rules...