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...well during dangerous low-altitude emergencies when the capsule would not have time or space to work. "With our D seat," says C. L. ("Kelly") Johnson, Lockheed's vice president for engineering and research, "and at today's take-off and landing speeds, it becomes possible to eject pilots safely at near-zero altitudes-as low as 400 ft. at 850 m.p.h. This thing has the same wing-loading as an airplane. Crude as it looks, it's a very sound aerodynamic device...
...ground. In South Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO air base there...
...silvery pilchards, their glinting symphony of movement matched by the sparkling (though often deafening) score of young Composer Clinton Elliott. But as a facts-of-life lesson, some children may find Secrets confusing. How will Mother explain the convulsive spectacle of a father sea horse in labor, struggling to eject from his pouch the young sea colts hatched from eggs deposited there by his carefree mate...
...fission in this way, but when it is struck by high-speed neutrons from a sufficiently powerful detonator, it undergoes a variety of nuclear reactions. Some of its atoms split, splattering into middleweight atoms (fission products) and giving off enormous energy. Other U-238 atoms absorb a neutron, then eject two neutrons, turning into atoms of telltale...
...Associated Citizens' Councils of Tennessee, and Pro-Southerners Inc., the demonstrators came to persuade Governor Frank Clement (TIME, Jan. 30) that Tennessee should declare the Supreme Court decision "null and void." They got an early hint of Clement's answer: when one of the demonstrators tried to eject a Negro photographer, a state trooper intervened: "If you hit that man, I'll lock you up. This building belongs to all the people...