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"Get oot o' there wi' yer bluidy magic lantern," thundered Scotland's late golfing great, Andra Kirkaldy, when a cameraman dared set foot on the sacred Old Course at St. Andrews at the turn of the century. Had Kirkaldy been around St. Andrews last week, he probably...
The first explosion came at dawn. The sleepy-eyed citizens of Bolzano, a quiet, German-speaking town in Italy's Alpine province of South Tyrol, trembled wonderingly out of bed and into the streets. At the second blast, an eerie bluish light flashed over the mountains as a high...
Milton Eisenhower and Eleanor Roosevelt turned down the invitation immediately. The committee then wired Castro: "The committee does not believe that the interests either of the prisoners involved or of Cuba's need for raising agricultural production can be best served by a propaganda duel through an exchange of...
The soft-landing rocket has a special NOTS engine (named after the Naval Ordnance Test Station) with a delicately variable thrust. When it blasts off, the rocket climbs the cables as long as the thrust of its engine is greater than its total weight. When the thrust is reduced by...
The Navy is encouraged by its success in making an engine with a thrust that can be controlled so precisely. But engineers who have been working on the rocket since 1958 realize only too well that many a problem remains before far-flying spaceships can make such soft landings on...