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What hope is left for the space enthusiasts? Using present fuels and the free-fall orbit, says Porter, they may be able soon to set up a man-made earth satellite. But only a compact atomic-powered rocket could build up enough speed without excessive fuel loads to enable men to ignore intricate navigation and steer through the heavens as they choose...
HELL IS A CITY, by William Ard (246 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), features Timothy Dane, one of the more entertaining and intelligent private eyes, but the real issue is good cops v. bad cops. An expert at big-city political shenanigans, Author Ard is also expert at compact plotting and at dragging readers on a breakneck chase...
...proposed amendment provides several sensible rules to govern redistricting laws. It seeks to make all Congressional districts compact in territory, a principle which the legislature has repeatedly violated. And each district would contain almost exactly the same number of inhabitants, a needed change from the present system, where districts vary by as much as 100,000 people. Perhaps most important, no city or town, except Boston, could be divided between districts; legislative majorities could no longer win two districts by skillful splitting of enemy territory for every one lost...
...people live in the Upper Colorado Basin states and they are hungry for water. Which is more important?" The Upper Colorado Basin includes 110,000 square miles of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. New Mexico and Arizona (the Upper and Lower Basin are defined in a seven-state compact signed in 1922, with the dividing line at Lee Ferry, Ariz...
...likenesses. The Turks are Moslems but not Arabs; their Islamic ties are complicated by bitter relationships with the Arabs, whom they ruled for four centuries. Both Israel and Turkey are virile, modern and westward-looking inhabitants of an old, static and inward-looking region. Turkey admires Israel's compact little army as the region's second-best force (after her own), while Israel sees Turkey as the only other Middle East power of military significance. For Israel, an island in a sea of hatred, the new .neighborliness is doubly welcome...