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...problem is to pin down in time and space an object travelling around the earth at about 18,000 miles per hour in an orbit constantly being changed by the earth's gravitational pull. Until last October, Whipple had expected that this object would be the American earth satellite planned to be launched as a project for the International Geophysical Year...
...term can be applied to almost anybody from 15 to 40 who thinks that things are in a hell of a mess so you might as well have a good time. IT is probably best described as an "ECTSTATICALLY Good Time," though the feeling is as hard to pin down as any mystical experience...
...other major speculation in Little Rock today is whether the FBI can collect enough evidence to pin conspiracy charges on certain individuals who are thought to be instigators of Monday's violence...
When he showed his baggy-eyed cine-mobster's face on TV (TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel...
Russians have been compelled, since Budapest, to pour an estimated $1.5 billion into the satellites to keep them happy; they have not yet figured out how to pin the satellites down without spending too much on them. Economically, in fact, the satellites may soon prove more costly than valuable. There are some who argue that the main advocates of keeping Eastern Europe in thrall are the Red army marshals, who want plenty of acreage between Western front lines and Russian territory...