Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...priced line of Mercurys. Ford moved Mercury down from the medium-priced field, once more underlining the sharp decline in sales of medium-priced cars, which have slipped from nearly 40% of the market in 1955 to only 19.6% this year. Mercury's new low-price series-the Meteor 600 and 800 -are built on the Ford chassis, use six-cylinder engines. Their factory list prices will start at about $2,150 (v. $2,389 for the lowest-priced 1960 Mercury...
...difficulties were staggering. Every aspect of the project called for prodigies of technology. But the most formidable problem of all was one that should have been familiar to anyone who ever saw a meteor turn into a trail of fire in the night sky. It was the problem of "re-entry": how to get an ICBM warhead, with its protective nose cone, back through the earth's atmosphere without its being burned into sky-streaking embers. As history may one day note, it was at an Ithaca, N.Y. cocktail party that one of the most significant early steps toward...
...testing device known as the shock tube. The problems of nose-cone re-entry were fearsome enough on paper. It was understood all too well that an ICBM re-entry body of cone and warhead would have to crash back into the earth's atmosphere at near-meteor speed of 15,000 m.p.h., with enough motion of energy to vaporize five times its weight of iron. Piling up ahead of the re-entry body would be a high-pressure air layer reaching up to 15,000° F.-about 1½ times...
...Union ridiculed the Western craze for flying saucers. But ever since the first Sputnik, the Russians have indulged in their own kind of science fiction about possible visitors from outer space. One Aleksandr Kazantsev theorized that the great Tunguska depression in Siberia, actually caused by the fall of a meteor in 1908, had really resulted from the explosion of a nuclear-powered spaceship attempting to land on earth. Reputable Soviet meteor experts and astronomers ridiculed Kazantsev's theory and accused him of being a charlatan and a cheap sensationalist, but his theories continued to turn up in the Literary...
...interest to play the commercial circuits. In the next few months it will be shown as an added attraction in several thousand U.S. movie houses. Made by former Disney Staffer John Sutherland, Rhapsody sets out to tell a sort of child's history of steel from the first meteor that ever hit the earth to the first manned rocket that leaves it, and most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound...