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...opposite direction. Martin's new tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built-in reaction absorber. When the astronaut presses the trigger, the motor near the handle compresses a spring with a brief quick twist. As the spring expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass...
...situation is far different from what it was in the 1950s. The Government reports that it has no plans to impose controls. It figures that controls would not be necessary because both the private and the public sectors of the economy are large enough to absorb military escalation without much of a wrench. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who during the Korean war was director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, points out: "When Korean fighting broke out, we had a defense budget of $10 billion. And there was no force in being to sustain large-scale fighting. By contrast...
...year with the influx of some 32,000 U.S. troops since February -and at least 40,000 more are expected there before summer's end. Free-spending G.I.s have pumped vast new purchasing power into the marketplace, but there has been no comparable increase in consumer goods to absorb the new money. At the same time, stepped-up military construction has drained labor and materials from the civilian economy, further widening the gap between supply and demand. Building workers' wages have doubled in the last six weeks, while everyone from bartender to B-girl demands and gets higher...
...lightweight bulletproof vest and seat protector is being issued to U.S. helicopter pilots. Made of a classified combination of synthetic fibers and metal, weighing half as much as steel, the vest can absorb the full impact of a rifle or pistol bullet, shredding the bullet as it pierces the outer layer of the plating...
...Paris-Presse goes, so has gone much of the French press. In spite of a rising population, the number of papers in France has declined from 230 in 1938 to 82 today. While there are no brand-name commercials on the Government-controlled television, magazines absorb 60% of the nation's advertising. And even in politically keen France, the new generation is snowing little interest in political news; they find far more excitement on the highways or the beaches than in reading another De Gaulle speech...