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...toss its heavier load 1,000 extra miles, the A-3 packs more thrust and less deadweight. First-stage fuel, made by Aerojet General Corp., is denser, so that more can be carried in the same space. It is also more powerful, producing a hotter flame (6,300 to 6,600° F.) and more thrust. The casing that restrains its pressure (800 to 900 lbs. per sq. in.) has been lightened by making it out of filament-wound glass fiber instead of metal...
Europe's Biggest. This week the Kockums yard in Malmö will deliver the largest ship ever built in Scandinavia, the tanker Esso Lancashire (81,150 deadweight tons). At the Eriksberg yard in Göteborg, workers are laying the keel for the largest ship ever built in Europe, a 92,750-ton Socony Mobil tanker...
Kwamina tries to dance and drum its way out of its plotty doldrums and deadweight writing. Thanks to Choreographer Agnes de Mille, it sometimes does. Sinuously quivering shoulders and hypnotically swiveling hips make the stage thrum with barbaric force and sensual splendor, most notably in Mammy Traders. But the dances are less show builders than clock stoppers. Between them, the wordy worthy talk ticks on. The interracial love affair is played with such fastidious good taste by Terry Carter and Sally Ann Howes as to be flavorless...
...jumbo-size Advocate (dated April, 1961) has finally lumbered its way to the newsstands. If a certain amount of deadweight had been lopped off before publication, it might have been a truly fine issue. As it is, this number still surpasses the quality of any other in at least a year...
...Plus Zero. Nehru himself, whose dreams have always run to government-run industry, giant dams, and steel mills and machine-tool plants, has come to realize that industrialization is being dragged to a full stop by the deadweight of the impoverished villages. He went to Gangad to dramatize his full backing of Bhave's plans of Bhoodan (gifts of land) and Gramdan (pooling of all community resources) in the hope that they will build a future of healthy peasant cooperatives. Speaking to audiences of thousands, as he walked from city to village to city, Bhave expressed his idea...