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...alternative to the purchase of the rink, the MDC is considering a new method of freezing ice with low-cost, portable apparatus, Bowker revealed. Benjamin Fink, chief engineer of the MDC's division of parks, is consulting with Canadian engineers on this project...
...first three Aerobee rockets sent up with this apparatus were failures (which surprised no one in the tricky rocket business). The fourth trial succeeded. The sun-seeker found the sun and held the camera steady on it for long enough to get a 28-second exposure. The film, recovered undamaged from the rocket's wreckage, showed a sharp spectrogram of the sunlight taken at 50 miles altitude, above nearly all of the atmosphere. The bulk of the ultraviolet was at just the place on the sun's spectrum where the scientists thought it would...
...invisible party has also suffered some setbacks. The convictions of Alger Hiss, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg have hampered Red espionage operations, although it is impossible to know whether the mainspring of the Red spy apparatus has been broken...
...proposes to build a fleet of three-stage rockets, each standing 265 feet high and weighing 7,000 tons when fueled. The 51 motors in the first stage will have a thrust of 14,000 tons. The second stage will be smaller, and the third, containing the crew, control apparatus and final payload, will be a winged vehicle rather like an airplane...
...main feature of the laboratory is the extreme flexibility of its internal design. Whole walls and sections of floor can be easily moved to accommodate new apparatus...