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...distant relative to the manned Mercury capsules and the Russian Vostoks that have already orbited the earth. It is a remote-controlled robot, and it is traveling toward the far reaches of space-far beyond man's still limited reach. But it is carrying the most sophisticated scientific cargo yet sent aloft. Its complex instrumentation is a U.S. triumph...
...Jettison the cargo...
Selling Points. To ease apprehensions that foreign customers will renege on bills, the Export-Import Bank and 71 insurance companies have formed the Foreign Credit Insurance Association to sell insurance against most risks at low rates. Pan American World Airways, which wants to step up its air-cargo shipments, is one of several international firms ready to put businesses in touch with established sales agents abroad. The Commerce Department supplies inquirers with a long list of potential foreign buyers, counsel on how to sell them and how to snip international red tape, and news that there are likely foreign markets...
...find out more about STRIKE'S combat readiness, Adams ordered the Carolina maneuvers, dubbed "Operation Swift Strike II.'' F-100 fighters roared low over the peanut and beanfields in close support of sweltering G.I.s armed with new M-14 rifles and M-60 machine guns. C124 cargo planes lumbered overhead to airdrop Jeeps to the troops below. During one exhausting night, 194 huge cargo planes of the Military Air Transport Service flew in 8,000 men of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division and 6,000 tons of equipment from Fort Carson, Colo., 1,800 miles away...
...waves them back to prevent a possible escape to an occasional Greek or Italian ship that puts in at the Durres harbor. When a West German ship arrived carrying badly needed Canadian wheat−paid for by Peking−it was not allowed into the harbor at all; the cargo was laboriously transferred by launch. Although Albania has 250 miles of Adriatic coastline, fish are scarce because the regime permits only a handful of politically trustworthy fishermen to venture out, since Italy is only 50 miles away...