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...theory, Sputnik I should stay up for about 27 months before aerodynamic drag and gravity pull it down into air dense enough to destroy it by the heat of friction. But now the Smithsonian scientists think that the moon will set for good after only 3½ months, flare into destruction sometime around the middle of January...
Djellabah & Degree. Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef did not let the bad news spoil his trip. Apart from official business -including a hurried conference with his aides on the sudden flare of border battles between Moroccan irregulars and Spanish forces (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and ceremonial dinners, luncheons and receptions, the King found dramatic ways to point up his country's ties with the U.S. Stopping off at A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters for a sip of orange juice and a chat with President George Meany, he recalled that the A.F.L. and C.I.O. had helped to organize trade unions in Morocco. Meeting...
Yovicsin said he was encouraged by the spirit shown by both the team and students, as several hundred spectators cheered the team at the end of the last home practice. The crowd and the Harvard band lined a flare-marked path as the team ran from the field to Dillon...
Discussing British public opinion at the time of the Anglo-French invasion of Suez last year, which he described as "a national aberration" on the part of England, Nicholas mentioned the brief flare-up of anti-U.N. feeling. He emphasized that the British now support the U.N. as strongly as they had before the crisis, and that British relations within the United Nations were, surprisingly, as friendly as ever...
...Navy reported that tests of its inexpensive, infrared, air-to-air Sidewinder missile showed the weapon so accurate that it could shoot a flare-pot off a target-plane wing at a 7½-mile range...