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While the world was wondering whether the U.S. or Russia could blast a man into space with rockets and bring him back alive, a California test pilot proved last week that the mundane manned airplane is still a fairly handy get-up-and-go device. Above the shimmering mirages of California's Mojave Desert, Veteran Test Pilot Joseph Albert Walker rode the nation's most advanced research craft-the North American X-15-to a height of 169,600 ft. (32.12 miles). Walker's flight lifted him farther from earth than man has gone before and provided...
...steel hands used to the authoritative roar of a huge blast furnace, the new plant that began operating this week at Niagara Falls, Ont., neither looked nor sounded like an iron smeltery. The plant, owned by New York's Strategic Materials Corp., is the first commercial operation of a new smelting process that could open a new era for the steel industry. It could also lead to the quick building of a steel industry in underdeveloped countries. The smeltery is designed to take low-grade ores, contaminated ores, and ores so fine that they would choke a blast furnace...
...Sovereign Resources, Inc. plans to build a steel plant in Anderson County, Texas, to use low-grade East Basin ores and local lignite instead of the expensive metallurgical coking coal that a blast furnace needs...
...than the Ukraine or Byelorussia. Of all the Soviet bloc leaders, Gomulka was first with lavish congratulations for Nikita Khrushchev after he torpedoed the summit conference last year. Last month Warsaw hastened to rename a street and a collective farm after Patrice Lumumba, following Moscow's big propaganda blast in memory of the Congolese "symbol of anti-colonialism." Two "Freedoms." In exchange for this kind of cooperation, the Russians keep the 30,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland close to their barracks and out of the towns. Until recently, Moscow has respected two big concessions won by the Poles...
Last week, in celebration of his great fortune, Akumu threw a little blast for 40 friends. He broke out the best in the house-a brand-new keg of uncut methyl alcohol, a volatile liquid most often used for boosting aircraft takeoffs. When the party was over, ten of the revelers were permanently blinded. Eight others, including Akumu Onyiego, were dead...