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...upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate a total thrust of between 300,000 and 400,000 lbs., or roughly what it took the Soviets to put up Sputnik II; its snub nose cone is designed to withstand the intense heat of reentry into the earth's atmosphere. Because Atlas got a later start than its Russian opposite number, its single-stage design is more modern, more foolproof than the ponderous three-stage Russian ICBM...
Thus goes-and must go-the U.S.'s struggle to maintain the peace and security of the free world by maintaining the deterrent power on earth and in space through the late 19503 and 19603 into the 19705. "Our real problem," the President summed up in his State of the Union address last week, "is not our strength today; it is the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow...
Three months ago the gendarme net closed around the rugged slopes of Haft Kuh (Seven Mountains), where Dadshah and the remnants of his outlaws had gone to earth. Last week the police began the final assault on his mountain stronghold and carried the rampart in hand-to-hand fighting. Eight gendarmes died, but they accomplished their mission: Dadshah and another of his brothers were killed, and the rest of his band surrendered...
...that Britons still control 80% of all foreign investments in India, own a majority (64%) of India's tea industry and a quarter of the vital jute industry. Given the choice, say Indian public-opinion surveys, more Indians would choose to visit England than any other place on earth...
...planetary wind is the broad river of air that circles around the earth at high altitude in the North Temperate Zone. Its general direction is from west to east, but its flow is usually distorted into great horizontal waves 4,000 miles from side to side. The waves have the important function of mixing cold Arctic air with warm air from near the tropics. If the mixture did not exist, Canada would be much colder than it is and Cuba would be hotter...