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...m.p.h., long-range interceptors comparable to U.S. F-104 and F106 fighters. But one of the Russian planes had a new twist unlike anything in the U.S. hardware field: a liquid-fuel rocket booster under its tail, designed to give it tremendous, straight-up climbing power and speed in a pinch...
Even in his apprentice, Vandeleur Lee days, Shaw was far ahead of the informed opinion of his time. He was an early booster of Wagner, regarded Mozart as the greatest of composers at a time when he was not sufficiently appreciated, insisted that Bach's music belonged not to the past but to the future. British music of the 19th century was to Shaw simply "a little Mozart and water," and he periodically attacked "the absurdity of being the only music-patronizing nation in the world which systematically tolerates opera delivered in a foreign tongue." The composer he most...
Miller himself indeed worked as a proofreader ("a white-collar coolie") for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, was attached to a little magazine, not transition but Booster, and danced not the Charleston but a fandango along the gutters, in the brothels, bistros and mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...
...other quick-transport jobs. If its nylon fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment, say Ryan engineers, might be the elaborate eight-engine booster of the Saturn rocket, which will crash to costly destruction a short time after launch unless it is landed gently...
...speed up longer-range space programs, NASA and the Defense Department want more money to perfect more powerful booster rockets. Last week the Administration was planning to ask Congress for an additional $600 million for space projects. If the money is granted-and Congress is unlikely to refuse-the U.S. space effort will be 25% larger than the Kennedy Administration's original request. And increased emphasis will be placed on putting men rather than instruments into space...