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They began to come one night in late March. Just after dark, a Soviet freighter arrived off Takoradi, Ghana's principal port-where all operations normally are in the daylight hours-and advised the harbor authorities that it was ready to discharge its cargo immediately. Although the harbor pilots usually go off duty at 4:30 p.m., the ship was quickly berthed...
...long time, human space travelers may be relatively useless cargo. But scientists whose imaginations run beyond the immediate future do not scoff at men in space. There will come a time, the scientists believe, when men will be needed because of the human capability for judgment and improvisation. A collection of instruments landed on the moon can do only the specific jobs for which it is designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that...
...ordered to wheel around and return to station in Okinawa. The U.S. lifted 16 helicopters to the Laotian forces, deposited some 400 marines, many of them veterans of the 1958 Lebanon landings, at a base just across the border at Udon, Thailand. Around the clock, U.S. C-130 cargo transports lumbered into Bangkok, disgorging guns and ammunition for transfer to the anti-Communist Laotian troops...
...obligation to make sure that the remainder of the 20th century eradicates the conditions spawning such separatist movements in order to avoid the tragic consequences of similar "cargo cults." The "Messiah" who appeared to the Western Indians about 1890 also promised them an Armageddon with a postscript of a land of "milk and honey" reserved exclusively for red men, of course. The result was gunpowder, chaos and tragedy for those who tried to hurry Armageddon, and those who maintained quiet hopes must still be waiting. Spencer C. D. Jourdain...
...orders were written in longhand to prevent a stenographer from seeing them ahead of time. Result: Wall Street was taken completely by surprise. Lockheed stock jumped 55 points in one day. Investors knew that besides the military contract, commercial airlines will probably order the planes for their cargo service just as they did when Boeing developed its 707 passenger jet from its Air Force KC-135 tanker...