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Since the first of the year, the Administration has moved to ease the stockpile burden. It set up a Cabinet-level committee to review the program, last April eliminated the veto held by five Government departments. The Administration has drawn up a long-range disposal plan that it hopes will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Fat Cousin | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

The third system at the astronaut's disposal, fly-by-wire, uses the jets and fuel supply of the automatic system, but is controlled by the hand stick. Instead of opening the peroxide valves directly, fly-by-wire works them through a set of electrical actuators. It is faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Suggestion to Astronauts: Look, Ma, No Hands | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Living Off Inventory. Steel users are currently living off the huge inventory of 17 million tons that they piled up last winter as a hedge against a possible strike by the United Steel workers. The auto industry, which consumes one-fifth of the nation's steel, has enough at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Slump in Steel | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Everywhere, progress carries health problems in its train. Agricultural economies may be improved by a new network of irrigation ditches. But more ditches mean that more field hands are exposed to a debilitating infestation of flukes, transmitted by snails. In the mushrooming cities of newly developed countries, haphazard water supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor to the World | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Foam from sewerage syndets sometimes piles up five feet high on rivers, and volcanoes of it belch and billow over the aeration tanks of sewage-disposal plants, to be windborne for blocks, blighting vegetation and stinging eyes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Down the Drain | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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