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...Orbited Echo I, a thin-skinned, gas-filled balloon 100 ft. in diameter, pioneer of a future globe-girdling network of balloon satellites to be used to bounce com munications signals from one continent to another (see SCIENCE...
...Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency food supplies, and from Washington...
GENERAL MOTORS' two other new com pacts, the Oldsmobile F85 and the Buick Special, will be scaled-down versions of their big-car brothers, but bigger and more powerful than the Corvair. Unlike the Corvair, their engines will be up front. For the two cars. G.M. has developed a new eight-cylinder. 145-h.p. water-cooled, part-aluminum engine...
This is more than melodrama, Translator Graves easily persuades the reader. Alarcon, the firebrand grown conservative, still is a mocker. His gentle irony is aimed partly at the lofty aspirations of youth, and also, less obviously, at the easy com promises of age. The author's characters, particularly those that are, in part, self-caricatures, are drawn with accuracy and wit. Alarcón's description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind...
...chest and shoulder girdle in a fashion to which he is not accustomed when he first acquires his new automobile.'' The hip and back symptoms are caused by the necessity of rotating the hip when entering or leaving a smaller car and "limitations in foot room that com pel the front-seat passenger to sit with the lower half of the body rotated in order to secure the maximum available space...