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But the Army also found that Jimmy's basement workshop could not produce the requisite materials to control the flow and .mixing of fuel. Last week, regretfully, the Army grounded Jimmy's rocket. But Redstone's commander, Brigadier General Holger N. Toftoy, tried to hold open the...
The Air Force's rocket-sledding Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), world's swiftest (632 m.p.h.) land-borne man, was restricted to "routine," low-speed runs, ordered to quit torturing himself for science on the meteoric, eye-blackening sled trials. Explaining that Stapp was...
No Telling. The U.S., too, has its liutai. Standouts: Wisconsin's Carl Beck er, Philadelphia's William Moennig & Son, Manhattan's Simone Sacconi. It also has such well-grounded amateurs as New York's Norman Pickering, who makes stringed instruments when he is not developing fine...
The rally nearly died when Botsford grounded to shortstop, but the Lion infielder was undecided whether to catch Botsford at first or Simourian at third and booted the ball to set the stage for Getch's hit.
Preliminary experiments performed by Douglas have been encouraging, and the capsule cockpit is now approaching the practical testing stage. Besides saving pilots' lives, it has other advantages. It can be used as a training device, and dress rehearsals for combat missions can be performed with formations of pilots sitting...