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Scientists have discovered a quantity of tritium, a radioactive variation of the hydrogen atom, on the capsule of Discoverer 17. Normally most tritium is lost in the atmosphere.
Fighting against this trend, some major airframe makers tried diversification-turning to everything from hydrofoil boats to garbage disposal plants. Famed old Glenn L. Martin Co. retired altogether from the airframe business, prospered by putting its chips on missiles and space, and lately has branched into such solid civilian products...
Ford Motor Co.-whose Aeronutronic Division has contracts worth $40 million for an antitank missile, multipurpose booster rocket, and the outer casing of a moon-probe vehicle-recently bought the $400 million-a-year Philco Corp., mainly for Philco's space-age electronics business (prime contractor for the Army...
Provided Justice Department trustbusters do not intervene-Ford did not feel them out before announcing the deal-Ford will get good value for its money. Besides ranking as one of the nation's leading makers of radios, phonographs, TV sets and home appliances, Philco has branched out into radar...
Romantic History. Hiram Bingham, Yale scholar and later U.S. Senator from Connecticut, set out on muleback in 1911 in search of the lost Indian city, which he was convinced was more than legend. For years there was talk of ruins located far above the Urubamba Canyon near Cuzco, but they...