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What bombs have the Russians tested? The Russians are believed to have a well-tested arsenal of H-bombs, but there is reason to believe that their bombs may be heavier than U.S. bombs of the same explosive yield. Strong evidence for this speculation is the powerful booster rocket that the Russians are now using so effectively for their space spectaculars. The big rockets were developed at great cost because they were needed to carry very heavy loads. The U.S.. which had lighter H-bombs in prospect, was slow to concentrate on giant rockets. Little is known about other...
...shipment of fresh fruits and vegetables into or out of Hong Kong was banned. In the Philippines and Formosa, less than two-hour flights away, raw food from Hong Kong was seized and burned. The Philippines, which have a heavy, regular and effective program of cholera vaccination, began giving booster shots but reported no cases. Formosa hurriedly got out its needles at ten health stations, and a U.S. Navy medical laboratory there stepped up production and shipments of vaccine. Throughout the Far East, travelers from Hong Kong had to show a recent inoculation certificate (immunity lasts only about six months...
...bequest was one that any museum in the world would have been overjoyed to get, but only the new Jerusalem Museum of Art has so persuasive a booster as U.S. Showman Billy Rose. For years curators and directors have been angling for the Lipchitz plasters-so many, in fact, that the great sculptor hardly knew which way to turn. Then one day Lipchitz' old friend Billy came to call in his capacity as the chairman of the Jerusalem Museum's art committee. After talking with Billy. Lipchitz suddenly realized that to give his plasters to Israel...
...Change. But most U.S. scientists and space experts seemed unsurprised at Russia's feat, and not unduly dismayed. It represented no new breakthrough for Russian rocketry: having lifted Gagarin into single orbit and brought him back, the Russians needed only to use the same booster and capsule for Titov's longer flight. To scientists, the principal interest in Titov's voyage was the question of how he would stand up to the prolonged 25-hour period of weightlessness-the one condition of space travel that had yet to be duplicated, except momentarily, during ground experiments and training...
News from Grissom began to be relayed over the control-room loudspeaker. He felt fine, and all systems were working properly. At T plus 141 sec., officials told the waiting crowd that Liberty Bell 7 had separated successfully from the Redstone booster. The crowd clapped and yelled. Grissom looked out through his four-pane "picture window"-a new feature of the capsule-but was at first too dazzled to see much. "Boy," he reported, "that sun is really bright." Later he saw the clouded coastline far below, watched the sky grow blacker-and became so fascinated with the view that...