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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Named for the late Chicago Tribune Publisher and Chicago Booster Colonel Robert McCormick, the new two-floor convention hall can feed 25,000 banqueters, boasts exhibition space equal in size to six football fields. Its central location and modern facilities practically guarantee that Chicago, with its 931 conventions a year (and 1,155,000 visitors), can better even this year's $250 million convention business and maintain its position as the nation's No. 1 convention city...
...last week polished off three new achievements in its ever-brightening space program...
...Downrange in the South Atlantic, the recovery ship Timber Hitch stood by as Cape Canaveral launched an Atlas 700 miles into space. Seventy-six minutes and 5,000 miles after the blastoff, Timber Hitch plucked from the water a cylindrical instrument package ejected by the Atlas nose cone. Later, it was packed off to the States in a trombone case (it just happens to fit snugly within the shaped confines of a sliphorn...
...California, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield slipped into the cockpit of the experimental space plane X-15, dropped free from the wing of a high-flying B-52, gunned to 80,000 ft. at speeds nearing 2,000 m.p.h. It was the first test of the X-15's new 57,000-lb.-thrust engine, the most powerful airplane rocket engine that the U.S. has built to date (earlier X-15 engines developed 16,000 Ibs. thrust). Said Crossfield, who flew only at half throttle: Acceleration with the new engine was so abrupt that it was "almost like an explosion...
Watson said that first priority on any available space would probably be given to squad members and managers, since the Athletic Department currently provides transportation for only about 40 of the 65 varsity and JV players. He also suggested that needy students be allowed to use the seats...