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High energy is not the only requirement of a fuel and its oxidant. Also desirable are cheapness and availability. High density is important for keeping down the rocket's size and frontal area. Ease of ignition is almost a must. The best combinations are "hypergolic," igniting spontaneously as soon as mixed. Bad qualities to be avoided are toxicity, corrosiveness, heat instability (exploding when hot) and a tendency to evaporate like liquid oxygen. No fuel is perfect. Beryllium compounds might be good if beryllium were not so scarce and so poisonous...
...Beach. In addition to these frontal attacks, Meyner has been wounded by a shot in the back from his own party. The key to a Democratic victory rests in Hudson County, where last election Meyner won almost half his 154,000-vote plurality over Republican Candidate Paul Troast. Now Hudson is racked by internecine warfare; "Victory Ticket" Democrats, who last spring wrested control of Jersey City away from Boss John V. Kenny, this election are trying to take the whole county. The conflict and confusion may rob Meyner of many of the votes he needs to roll up in Hudson...
Revivalist Billy Graham and the Devil give each other no peace. Last week Graham reported on the kind of satanic guerrilla warfare that goes on behind the scenes in response to Billy's frontal attack. He was dictating some notes for a sermon on the Devil, he said, when his dictating machine caught fire. Martin Luther threw his inkpot; Billy finished the notes in longhand and hurried to Madison Square Garden-only to find that he had lost them on the way. "Something like this always happens when I preach on the Devil," said Billy. "There...
...ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow and Warsaw, suddenly switched his support to Gomulka, indicating that the Kremlin did not favor a frontal attack on Gomulka at this moment...
...last week to announce a bitter bit of news: in the wake of the budget ruckus, Dwight Eisenhower's authority had ebbed low on Capitol Hill.* But among Ike's advisers unhappy knowledge drew divided reaction. Ignore it, said some. Counter it, suggested others, by delivering a frontal assault on the economy-harried Congress. Eventually Ike decided to move midway between suggestions, deliver a three-pronged plea: to the people by television, to the leaders of Congress in person, to a segment of his own disoriented party by telephone...