Solutions to ICBM difficulties explained in depth
The article outlines three key problems in ICBM development: guide a missile over thousands of miles with precision, recover a payload from space without destruction, and evade anti missile defenses. It explains inertial guidance via gyroscopes, the material science behind heat resistant noses, and private sector roles, notably AVCO’s work on nose cones and shape optimization for atmospheric re entry.
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Avco Manufacturing Corp
Everett
Mass
AVCO
Air Force
Martin Co
Balthware
Right on time Hold New Year Kiss
Neuchatel scientists explain that due to the Earth's slowing rotation the start of 1958 would be delayed by about three thousandths of a second after midnight. The suggestion is to kiss at exactly the start of the new year to mark the moment.
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Neuchatel
Switzerland
Siiss International Geophysical Year Scietists
Eisenhower plans trips and Christmas at White House
President Eisenhower eyes a Friday farm trip and a meeting of the new Civil Rights Commission before Jan. 3 while conferring with congressional leaders as Congress reconvenes. He spent Christmas quietly at the White House hosting family including grandchildren Mary Jean Susan Hagerty and Maj. John S. Eisenhower as Mary Jean greeted her grandmother with a kiss in the red carpet hall.
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Ident
Gettysburg
New Civil Rights Commission
Eisenhower
Congress
Eisenhowers
White House
Mary Jean
Maj
John S. Eisenhower
First Lady
National Presbyterian Church
Mary Jean Tod
Susan
Peace plan clash over NATO disarmament terms
Soviet and Pravda translations denounce NATO disarmament proposals as Western dominated and unrealizable. They warn a foreign ministers conference would be a stage for attacks on the USSR while proposing UN or international talks as a possible path to a summit. Dulles and Eisenhower seek evidence of Communist sincerity. The plan calls for halting manufacture by the Soviet Union the United States and Britain.
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Pravda
NATO
Soviet Union
United States
I Ae Ee
United Nations
Dulles
Eisenhower
Britain
Drownings After Car Plunges Into Canal Near Dunkirk
A car carrying seven French youths home from a Christmas ball plunged into a canal on Wednesday night in Dunkirk. The driver and two passengers escaped. four others perished. The article also notes Soviet and Western proposals on nuclear arms, calls for halting tests, and a broader East–West security framework.
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Dunkirk
France
Subyar
Two Transit Strikes Loom Over New York City
New York faces potential second wave of transit walkouts as the Transit Workers Union and Benevolent Association threaten strikes amid ongoing contract talks with Mayor Wagner. Aimed at averting a New Year’s Eve subway shutdown, negotiations were set for City Hall with City Labor Commissioner Felix to craft a workable agreement.
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New York
New
Long Island Railroad
Subway Motormen's. Benevolent Assa
Transport Workers Union
Michael J. Quill
Quill
Transit Authority
Wagner
CityHall
Harold A. Felix
Death on Birthday of Auburn Shoeworker Richard Smith
In Auburn an obituary notes that shoeworker Richard Smith died on Christmas Day, the date marked as his 18th birthday. The short tribute places the event in 1868 and marks his birth on December 25.
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Auburn
Richard Smith
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Tke
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Supreme Soviet
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Europe
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Russia
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MBA
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Lakewood ™ Blvd
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Theawer
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Long Beach
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