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...that for centuries trained young aristocrats, instead open colleges in Italy's Red districts. Balancing up the eleven years of Father Janssens' generalship, the delegates may well conclude that the order has gained not only in numbers but in public esteem and within the church itself. Intramural friction with other Catholic orders is at a minimum. The society enjoys the personal favor of Pius XII (both the Pope's secretaries are Jesuits, as is his personal confessor). In an age of ideological conflict, many intellectuals (including non-Catholics) have come to appreciate the discipline and diligence Jesuits...
...fishing trip. A lot of old Russian shells had been fished out of Berlin's Havel River and brought to the police explosives site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke cleared, Berlin's disarmament expert was dead. At week's end 8,000 Berliners flocked to pay tribute at the funeral of Sergeant Werner Stephan...
...research breakthrough. A Redstone-built, rocket-powered Jupiter "C" test vehicle, fired 400 miles into the ionosphere from its launching site at Cape Canaveral. Fla.. reached a top speed of 12,000 m.p.h., dropped into the Atlantic with its nose cone intact, despite the destructive 20,000° friction heat generated on its "reentry" into the earth's atmosphere. Thus the Army laid claim to being the first to solve the fantastically complicated "reentry problem" (and also exulted in the fact that the test Jupiter "C" landed 1,200 miles from its launching site, within a quarter-mile...
...faster than any surface ship. Reason: a ship that moves in the "interface" between water and air spends much of its power creating waves in the water, and this resistance increases steeply with increasing speed. A submerged submarine makes no waves. If it is properly designed to minimize skin friction and turbulence in the wake, it can move faster than a wavemaking surface ship of the same power. Conventional non-nuclear submarines are slow underwater because their electric engines must use with utmost economy the power stored in their batteries, but one non-nuclear submarine, the Albacore, was specially built...
...raise it to 11,000 m.p.h., and finally Stage Four will fire. When it burns out at 75 miles above the earth, Far Side will be climbing at about 18,000 m.p.h., and it will not stop until it has climbed 4,000 miles. When it falls back, the friction of the atmosphere will burn Far Side like a meteor before it can reach the earth...