Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment of strange quiet: "And when the Lamb bad opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." It is an interval of cosmic suspense; the hymns of the heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before...
...some question the spending of millions to search outer space? Can't they see we desperately need more inhabited countries to whom to give democracy and cash? There might even be farmers up there, and by adding a little to our taxes and raising the national debt limit a few more billions, we could subsidize them as we have...
Tunnels & Tools. Now McDonnell is training its sights on space. "Mr. Mac," as President McDonnell likes to be called, is certain that space flight is ''one of the most rapidly evolving fields of human creativity in the history of the world," and he is determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint...
...atmospheric reentry. This spring a new $5,137,000 wind tunnel will be finished to help solve the problems of flight at speeds up to 4,000 m.p.h., temperatures from -65° F. to 660° F. and altitudes up to 125,000 ft. McDonnell's race for space is not just for business reasons. Says Mr. Mac, with something akin to missionary hope: "The space exploration rivalry can be a creative substitute...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. With world sales of at least 1,500,000 copies, the book without a country continues to race through the inner space of humanity's heart and conscience...