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...Readers Dietrich & Deutsch take a longer look at the diagram. The arrow shows the direction of the rocket's flight to Venus, not the direction of the takeoff. Since the earth moves 18.5 m.p.s. and the rocket is fired in the opposite direction at 8 m.p.s., the net speed of the rocket is 10.5 m.p.s. in the direction of the earth's motion...
Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
...show offers a good many consolation prizes. Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!, Bloomer Girl) is engaging as the hard little heel, besides dancing her nimble feet off. Mitzi Green (Babes in Arms) plays the part and catches the color of a Texas Guinan. There is a wonderful takeoff of a big Ziegfeldish production number in which showgirls appear as bright-plumaged birds. There is a funny ballad in which a gangster reminisces about his rubbed-out pals. Most of Jerome Robbins' dances are lively and amusing; some of Morton Gould's tunes are witty, if not very tuneful...
...family. But the triumphal tour had just begun. Next day, after an eleven-and-a-half-hour plane flight, he arrived in Denver. Happily profane, he rattled off a stream of characteristic Pattonisms. Sample: he classed himself a "better poet than general." As his plane rolled into its takeoff, Los Angeles bound, he found his hotel key in his pocket, chucked it out, yelling to those on the ground to return...
...expensive furniture; 2) special mothproof rooms; 3) refrigerated vaults for furs. And last week he was working on a new idea he hoped would revolutionize the moving industry-an "airvan" which can be hauled to an airport as a truck trailer, and connected to a wing assembly for immediate takeoff...