Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Science, which follows the fiery trail of last week's cover story on space satellites with a penetrating look at the rocket re-entry problem, illustrated by five pages of color photographs, including the first shot of an ICBM nose cone streaking through the dense lower atmosphere...
...difficulties were staggering. Every aspect of the project called for prodigies of technology. But the most formidable problem of all was one that should have been familiar to anyone who ever saw a meteor turn into a trail of fire in the night sky. It was the problem of "re-entry": how to get an ICBM warhead, with its protective nose cone, back through the earth's atmosphere without its being burned into sky-streaking embers. As history may one day note, it was at an Ithaca, N.Y. cocktail party that one of the most significant early steps toward...
...nation's 40 million home gardeners, Burpee this year has five new flowers: Pink Peony asters, Gloriosa golden daisies, Glamour Shades snapdragons. Miracle marigolds and Trail Blazer zinnias. "Today's gardener," says Burpee, "wants what is easy to grow and spectacular to look at. We are working for bigger flowers on dwarfer plants. Americans want them big, but now, because of ranch-type houses, they want flowers low to the ground...
...executive age. Shortly before the changeover, Laro quit the Post to join the Los Angeles Mirror-News as executive editor; last week Donahue followed, was hired as the Mirror-News's assistant managing editor. Nearly a dozen other Post staffers have indicated that they might hit the trail to California too. To reassure the staff about its new boss, young Hobby stuck this sentence into the Post's news story of the change: "Former Governor William P. Hobby became managing editor...
...seven years (1826-33) during which he lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high...