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...each firing schedule in advance and deploys his forces accordingly. If a missile to be tested has heat-seeking guidance, he cannot use aircraft for fear the missile will turn on the planes. When aircraft can be used, they loiter as close as they dare. Sometimes they drop a flare to mark the impact. Sometimes the helicopters land and pick up small items, but fallen missiles are dangerous. Each carries a "destruct" charge to blow it to bits in case it heads for a place where it can do damage. Colonel Thum's recovery men are experts...
...years ago. Though both virus types cause disease outbreaks in cycles, their peaks occur at different intervals and almost never co incide. Outbreaks of Asian, or A2, flu (which has supplanted the older plain A and A1, or "A prime") run in two-or three-year cycles; they may flare up again later this winter or w?ait until next. Type B flu runs in four-to six-year cycles. The U.S. has had none to speak of since 1955, so an outbreak was due this winter. The virus was ready and waiting. As a Public Health Service spokesman...
From Indiana Harbor to Sparrows Point, the nation's steel industry showed little flare last week. Production has fallen in five of the past seven weeks, now hovers below 71% of capacity. Unfilled orders, which bulged at $5 billion in early 1960, are wheezing along at $3 billion. During the recovery of 1961, steel has contributed less-and benefited less-than in any other postwar economic comeback...
Launched Nov. 12, 1960, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, the satellite encountered radiation from an intense solar flare within a few hours. The capsule from the satellite was recovered off Hawaii two days later. The solar flare--a vast magnetic storm or explosion on the sun's surface--had caused a great increase in the amount of tritium in the earth's upper atmosphere...
...critics are louder than ever. Some people are trying to bury us." So laments Draper Daniels, executive committee chairman of Chicago's Leo Burnett, Inc.-and a lot of others in the $12 billion-a-year U.S. advertising business agree with him. Lately there has been a new flare-up of criticism of the adman and his trade. Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa damns advertising as "venal poetry," and Historian Arnold Toynbee contends that it is the unholy idol of materialism (TIME, Sept. 22). Some of the most articulate critics occupy influential jobs in Government, from U.S. Ambassador to India...