Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Goddard died in 1945 on the eve of the first U.S. test firings of captured V-28, leaving behind 22 volumes of meticulous records that proved to be of immense value to U.S. rocketmen. Six years later, as equal beneficiaries of his estate, Goddard's widow and the Guggenheim Foundation sued the U.S. Government for patent infringements. Last week, in belated recognition of Goddard's genius, the U.S. agreed to a settlement of $1,000,000. It was the largest patent-infringement award ever made by the U.S. Government...
...ribbing; the faint pinpoints of light that he studies are the end products of stellar evolution and hold many secrets of the universe. Recently, Astronomer Luyten found the dimmest star yet: a minuscule "white dwarf that emits 50,000 times less light than the sun, yet probably contains an equal or greater mass. "This one," he says, "looks to be at the end of the line...
...REPORTERS SET STAGE FOR SOLUTION, bragged the Daily News. The Tribune, with equal modesty, credited breaking the case to its staff artist. It was all in the best Front Page tradition...
Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo) all with equal, if not astounding, facility. Between the lines of the songs he inserted fragments of a compelling ideology...
...York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, who does not conceal his partiality for Democratic Nominee John F. Kennedy, weighed the two candidates and found them just about equal: "The job [Kennedy and Nixon] have to do cannot be done with personality or rhetoric, but only with cool analysis, efficient hard work, and political skill: and both have unusual capacity for precisely this kind of exercise. Both analyzed the problems of the nation in their acceptance speeches extremely well. Both concentrated on the future and left most of the usual nonsense about Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, the party...