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This new triumph of Soviet science (see SCIENCE), following almost exactly two years after Sputnik 1, showed that the U.S.S.R. is still ahead of the U.S. in the critical field of space. The U.S.S.R. fired two moon rockets into space, missed once, hit once; the U.S. fired five moon rockets, missed five times. The Soviet success, as such, gave the Soviet Union's Chairman Khrushchev, on the eve of his U.S. visit, perhaps the greatest prestige blast-off of all time...
...teacher reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary: up to $15,000) is free for another class or study in his field. Result: a true hierarchy of ability, a chance for able teachers to get paid more...
...Public interest in stock purchasing has risen to such a pitch throughout Germany that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently toured the schools in a poorer section of town, found 14-year-olds who knowingly employed stock market terms. Asked the newspaper: "Is the stock market becoming the soccer field of tomorrow?" In Holland, the Heyn chain of 360 grocery stores gives out coupons instead of trading stamps, and the coupons can be turned in for special debentures now paying...
MISSILE-INCENTIVE contract at cost of $29,209,851 was won by General Electric Co. to build Thor IRBM nose cones. First Air Force incentive contract in missile field will mean bigger profits if G.E. effects production savings and exceptional product performance...
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul with John St. John. In September 1944, British Field Marshal Montgomery ordered an airborne attempt to outflank the Siegfried Line, and a British battle surgeon who tended the wounded of that unsuccessful mission writes movingly of blood, death and capture...