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...space enthusiasts? Using present fuels and the free-fall orbit, says Porter, they may be able soon to set up a man-made earth satellite. But only a compact atomic-powered rocket could build up enough speed without excessive fuel loads to enable men to ignore intricate navigation and steer through the heavens as they choose...
...Quakers crossed the finish line half a length ahead of M.I.T. in a race marred for the Crimson by a snapped rudder wire which forced coxswain George Notter to drag his hands on the starboard side to steer for the last half mile. As a result, the varsity boat finished 18 seconds behind smooth-stroking Penn, whose excellent time...
Clad in grey mufti and the warm glow that radiates from a consummation long and devoutly wished, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma ("Dickie" to his friends) appeared at the Admiralty in London and took office as Britain's First Sea Lord. The last First Sea Lord to steer H.M.'s Navy from the green-walled room Mountbatten chose as his office was his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was forced to" resign at the outbreak of World War I, after 45 years of devoted naval service, because of public outcry over his German birth. Though...
When it came time to work up her winter cruise collection, Claire McCardell started using the same loose lines. Geiss tried to steer her off, arguing that the model had been copied to death. But Claire would not listen. Result: Geiss lost all that he had made on the Monastic dress and, on the verge of a nervous collapse, closed up shop...
...bounden duty, to his country and his party, to let the younger man take over. Asked if he would urge a conference on Formosa, he deferred to his successor: "I doubt if anyone in the whole world has worked as hard as the Foreign Secretary to steer this matter out of the danger area...