Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Science, which follows the fiery trail of last week's cover story on space satellites with a penetrating look at the rocket re-entry problem, illustrated by five pages of color photographs, including the first shot of an ICBM nose cone streaking through the dense lower atmosphere...
Getting dress material that is sturdy and cheap is the perennial problem of the penniless Haitian peasant women. Traditionally, old flour sacks have filled the need. Now cloth dealers in Port-au-Prince have found a bountiful new supply of material: surplus U.S. 48-and 49-star flags. From shore to shore the island is bright with dresses, shirts and kerchiefs in the stars and stripes; in peasant houses red, white and blue serves for sheets, pillow cases and tablecloths...
...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...
...future is filled with exciting problems. But the present is reality. On many a night, the inhabitants of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic can see a point of light darting through the heavens. It hurtles closer and grows bigger than any star or planet before crashing into the sea 100 miles away. It is another U.S. missile, fired from far-away Florida, that has soared 600 miles into space and successfully returned through the atmosphere. It means that the basic re-entry problem has been licked...
...Kenya, Protestant missionaries have just about won back the 39,000 (out of 40,000) Kikuyu and Embu Christians who deserted the churches during the Mau-Mau uprising in 1952. Identification of mission Christianity with "imperialism" is the church's biggest problem; two years ago, nine parishes of the Anglican diocese seceded and have appointed their own bishop. Twelve splinter churches have been formed, including the African Israel Church (whose members wear turbans), the African Interior Church, the Church of Christ in East Africa, and the African Brotherhood Church...