Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Freshman Smith, and the first outcry in the Senate against McCarthy's campaign of smear and innuendo. While scowling Joe McCarthy listened from a nearby desk, Maggie denounced him for debasing the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination, sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity ... I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear." Afterward, McCarthy sneeringly referred to Margaret Smith and the six Republicans* who signed her declaration as "Snow White and the Six Dwarfs." Seeking...
...astronaut starts his 4½-hour trip around the earth, Project Mercury will have cost at least $350 million. Explains Mercury's Robert R. Gilruth: "We had to go with the boosters we had, built around the Atlas system. So everything had to be miniaturized, even the heat shield. We couldn't use off-the-shelf equipment. Miniaturization takes time and money." Design of a special lightweight oxygen bottle, for instance, took 18 weeks, cost more than $20,000. The Russians, whose rockets generate an estimated 800,000 Ibs. of thrust (v. Atlas...
...summer sky for a full eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent through the earth's atmosphere. The capsule, with its canine passengers, was ejected automatically, floated down separately. Both satellite and capsule, said the Russians, landed astonishingly close-within 6.2 miles-to a pre-selected (but still secret...
...foremost novelist of Communist China is a Yangtze Valley scholar's son who calls himself Mao Tun. The name sounds exactly like the Chinese words for spear and shield-a combination which, according to a literary tradition 2,500 years old, signifies contradiction. Last week, as Red China's "creative workers" met in the shining new Great Hall of the People for Peking's Third National Congress of Writers and Artists, Mao Tun, 64, capped a long career as a man of contradiction...
...Bayreuth, Wagner's grandson Wolfgang was up. to his old tricks: stripped down, sparsely lighted productions designed to free the stern old gods of Valhalla from heavy, cardboard-shield and plaster-throne cliches. But by now, this once revolutionary style has produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain...