Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with that money, the Air Force will be able to buy 72 more Atlas and 50 more Titan missiles, bringing its intercontinental ballistic missile force to a total of 270 by the end of 1963. Also scheduled for the Air Force: $350 million for 15 test models of the solid-fuel, second-generation Minuteman missile (see SCIENCE...
...grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents confidently expect will ultimately replace the liquid-fuel Atlas as the U.S.'s standard ICBM...
...Brigham City plant began as a research center and pilot plant for production of rocket engines filled with the rubbery solid fuel that was Thiokol's first contribution to rocketry. It has grown into 84 smallish structures scattered over miles of desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps...
...modern works. (Muttered Permanent Conductor Konstantin Ivanov, who wanted to play more Beethoven: "I suppose King Hurok knows best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many U.S. orchestras, and the old tub thumpers emerged at times with a lacy lightness lost in many a U.S. concert hall...
...guard Chuck Kaufman heads a solid core of four Big Green veterans who have worked together since their fresh man year. Kaufman is an extremely quick ball-handler, and he is usually at the head of Dartmouth's fast break...