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...firing day at White Sands Proving Ground, N.Mex. A Viking rocket, built by the Glenn L. Martin Co. for the Navy, stood pencil-slim on the launching stand, its gleaming aluminum body surrounded by a gantry crane. Zero hour...
...Bomb. At X minus 15 minutes, a bomb set off a cloud of bright red warning smoke. The gantry crane had been wheeled away; the rocket stood slim and alone. Just before X minus ten minutes, a man jumped up on the launching platform and pulled the safety plug from between the rocket's fins, and thus closed the control circuits. It was ready to fire...
...Dare. Portly Police Commissioner John C. Prendergast, Chief Ray Crane and two policemen took the dare, sprinted for the front door, edged into the choking smoke inside. Craig, flat on the upstairs landing, began potting at them. They retreated, firing...
...subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe...
Amidst a flurry of "solutions" and opinions on the state of the world in general, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, last night told the Harvard Conference for World Peace that he was dubious that atomic secrets will prevent...