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...will therefore have to launch its satellite about 30 miles higher than originally planned to confront the same atmospheric drag, according to Whipple. The data about the air was obtained through a combination of radio and optical observations...
Radios on both Sputnik I and II are now dead, and the Russians are concentrating on optical observation. The life of Sputnik I, say the Russians, should be about three months; thus the satellite should stay aloft until the new year. Its carrier rocket, which has more air drag, will spiral down and burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle...
...high time for the U.S. to realign its thinking about the $275 billion ceiling since fiscal 1959 may bring even more serious debt management problems with heavier defense outlays in prospect (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The main value of the $275 billion figure has been to act as a psychological drag on Government spending. Originally set in 1946, when the debt was $269 billion, the ceiling was low enough to remind the U.S. of the need for economy, but high enough to give the Treasury leeway in its operations. But the Korean war pushed the debt right to the ceiling. Ever...
...lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind of fight anyone could expect from Republican Bill Knowland, with his immense California prestige, his boiler-room energy and his powerful friends...
Whipple added that the second rocket, although in a more elliptic orbit than the first, would probably take "a comparable period of time" to be affected by the atmosphere drag which is slowly destroying Sputnik I's rocket. Meanwhile, he said, "Curly," the first dog in space, is comparatively safe...