Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that end he has emphasized both race and color in his attempt to win friends and alliances. Red China has always dreamed of one day employing Indonesia's oil, Thailand's rice, even Japan's technology, as fuel for a huge Asian alliance that could safely defy the West. And now Mao has been emphasizing color as a way to align the have-not nations of Asia and Africa against the West...
Twenty minutes from Niamey, Niger, approaching for a night landing, the pilot of the chartered South African Constellation received an unsettling message from the control tower: turn away or have the plane seized on the ground. With his fuel tanks almost empty, the pilot had to set down anyway, and the Connie, its crew and 79 passengers-most of them white South Africans returning from European holiday-were surrounded by black guards armed with rusty rifles. Not until 24 hours later was the flight allowed to resume, and local authorities warned that in the future intruding South African planes would...
Inevitably, the 120's success reopened the long squabble among experts over the merits of solid fuel and liquid fuel in rocket-engine design. In the desperate effort to produce very large boosters such as those the Russians have, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration several years ago committed the civilian space program to rockets powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen, and its present hopes are pinned on a liquid-fuel engine called the Fl, which North American Aviation, Inc. has been developing for five years. It is a big, impressive machine, which will generate...
Interested Spectator. Last week's successful test of the U.A.C.'s engine went far to justify the claim of those who have always argued that solid-fuel rockets can be increased in size much more easily than engines that burn liquids. Solid fuels, in fact, have been the backbone of U.S. military missile power ever since the success of Polaris and Minuteman. Built for the Air Force, the U.A.C. 120-incher is part of Titan III, which will consist of Martin Marietta Corp.'s liquid-fueled Titan II rocket, already operational, with two of the new solid...
...Real Hooper. Dr. Van Allen is more hopeful. He thinks that careful design of spacecraft, putting fuel, food, batteries and other heavy objects toward the outside as protective shields, will do much to shield astronauts against solar protons without adding much weight. In any case, he says, the peril from flares is not too great. During a 450-day period from October 1959 to February 1961, when he measured protons in space, 21 flares affected the earth. Most of them were not dangerous. But toward the end of November 1960 came three violent solar "events," one of which reached peak...