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...hours went by, the conservative South Pole developed an ever stronger magnetic field. Behind Byrd's bill was a remarkably solid bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson pointedly made no effort to use his vote-pulling power on Kennedy's behalf. Moreover, a cluster of liberal Democrats whose votes might have helped were not even in town for the debate, e.g., Tennessee's Albert Gore, who 16 weeks before was lecturing the Senate about the unemployment breadlines back home. And of the liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas...
...housewives and children, Nehru troweled mortar from a silver bowl and set the cornerstone for a gigantic, tower-topped legislative hall. The building will be the latest major edifice to get under way in the new capital of the Punjab, a site that only seven years ago was a cluster of mud hut villages on the grassy plain southwest of the Himalayas. Now one-third completed, Chandigarh (pop. 50,000) ranks as one of the century's boldest schemes for a new city...
Good negotiators know from experience that each small cluster of homes has one householder who is regarded as the pacesetter of the neighborhood. Negotiator's rule of thumb: find the key man, sign him and his neighbors will follow suit. But property owners have their code too. Few ever admit to satisfaction with the appraisal; all complain, often with justification, that intangibles are involved that the state never takes into consideration...
...assembly hangars, engineers work over birds just arrived from manufacturing points. In the concrete blockhouses, experts cluster over their consoles, check the hundreds of telemetry receiving boxes that are stacked around the room like filing cabinets. They peer out of their redoubts through the eyes of closed-circuit TV cameras spotted around the launch pad (once, a camera zoomed in at the base of a gantry to discover a group of unwary poker players). At Central Control, sports-shirted young engineers tune in on an eleven-hour countdown that precedes a missile firing, timing each monotonous checkoff point with...
According to Aviation Week, the Aerobee M solves the propulsion problem with five stages of solid-fuel rockets, starting with a cluster of four Aerojet Seniors, which were developed for the Navy's Polaris missile. The initial guidance problem is not solved at all. Instead of attempting the extremely difficult feat of steering the vehicle accurately during its quick spurt through the earth's atmosphere, Aerojet proposes to fire it from a launcher pointed in the general direction of the spot in space where it is expected to meet the moon...