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...sets, a demanding and benevolent tyrant, a chair boy always behind him with a chair so that the master could sit down without looking, a mike boy always beside him so that the master could issue orders. A secretary trailed him, pencil at the ready. At home, a handy pad awaited his jotted-down inspirations in every room -even the bathroom...
...rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Acting in the opposite direction to that of the racing gases, a mighty force lifts the rocket off its launching pad. As long as the engine fires, the rocket climbs faster and faster, obeying Newton's second law: An unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate in the direction of the force . . . When the engine burns out, the rocket continues upward under the control of Newton...
...missilemen at the Pentagon and Cape Canaveral studied the figures, agreed that the Russians were ahead in terms of weight of payload, propulsion power, general rocket reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s rocket was also the first far-out Russian rocket detected by U.S. tracking systems. Whatever their secret launching-pad failures, the Russians apparently scored with the first rocket they got off the ground...
When Tom was swinging a pick as a sewer laborer during the Depression, the gauze pad so irritated the delicate membrane of his rosette that he had to have an operation. Recovery was slow, and Tom had to go on relief. Up to that time he had not let doctors study him, because of his sensitive feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would...
...Kingston, N.Y. demonstrators pressed a button on an enormous IBM-built SAGE computer, launched an air-breathing Air Force Bomarc missile from a pad at Cape Canaveral. Guided by Kingston, the Bomarc headed first for a B-17 drone over the Atlantic, found it, then attacked a second drone target miles away, finally was allowed to drop harmlessly into...