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Traditional Cluster. Propulsion Chief A. O. Tischler of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who watched the firing, pronounced the test "an unmitigated, unqualified, unequivocal, unadulterated success." Such strong language does not match NASA's traditional coolness toward solid-propellant boosters. Its ambitious Apollo program to land men on the moon by 1970 is based on North American's liquid-fueled F-l engine, which generates only 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Five Fls will have to be clustered together to boost the Apollo rocket off the ground...
...Suppressive Fire." Last May, with the Red Pathet Lao on the offensive, the U.S. began flying reconnaissance flights over Laos. Time after time, the)missions carried them to Ban Ban (which in Laotian means Village of Villages), a tiny cluster of about 100 shacks on stilts noted more for the rice whisky its inhabitants produce than for anything else. But the Ban Ban area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet...
...center of Bölkow's operation is its Ottobrunn idea factory, a closely guarded cluster of buildings in a dense forest outside Munich. From it has come such hardware as an experimental helicopter whose swiveling rotor blades will enable it to fly at a record 310 m.p.h., a heavy-duty rotor system that jets exhaust gases through the tips of hollow blades, and the VJ 101 vertical-takeoff fighter plane. With such help as he will get from Boeing, Ludwig Bölkow fully expects to help make Germany once again a major competitor in the world...
...bored cluster of newsmen posted outside his lavish villa in suburban Madrid, it looked like any other day in the life of Juan Domingo Perón. There had been the usual trickle of callers in the afternoon and evening. At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead...
First, the star-sighter locked on Alderamin. Then it fixed its gaze on Regulus. Another roll on its axis, and Mariner picked out Naos, then a multistar cluster near Naos. Finally, when Mariner was 360,000 miles from earth, its electronic eye found a star bright enough to send the proper radio report: Mariner had locked on Canopus...