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...Heat. Both skip and glide have their partisans. Dr. A. J. Eggers Jr. of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is a glide man. He figures that both skip and glide missiles are more efficient load-carriers for long ranges than ballistic missiles are. but he thinks that skip missiles will get too much heating and jolting during their violent acrobatics. Glide missiles will have to contend with heat only, and he thinks they can take it. When they speed through the high atmosphere toward a target 5,000 miles away, the temperature of their skin may reach about...
...danger of such confrontation can be reduced by evasive maneuvers at hypervelocity. Instead of bulling its way to its target like a crude ICBM, a hyperspeed missile will either skip or glide. If it skips, it will climb into space about half as high as a ballistic missile of the same range. Instead of plunging down to earth, it will skip off the top of the atmosphere like a flat stone off the surface of a pond. By doing this several times, if necessary, it can reach a distant target over an unpredictable course. The glide missile is simpler...
...question is, then, whether a free society can afford to let those who want to glide through school and thus waste needed talent. Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, states the case for those who wish to require a more rigorous curriculum. "In the best of all possible worlds, we could be elated that man has unshackled himself from earth gravity. Unfortunately, we don't live in the best of all possible worlds...
...meteorology, geodesy, radio communications. The Air Force must know how radar waves act in space, how nuclear warheads will explode in space to prepare for future battles in space, i.e., to knock down the enemy's missiles. Also, the Air Force is working beyond ballistic missiles to develop glide missiles-weapons that follow a ballistic trajectory through space, break back into the atmosphere under control, dodge antimissile missiles and put an H-bomb on the target. Then, perhaps, there will be the fantastic reality of manned missiles...
...Hartford's new office building. In place, the bas-relief will serve as a 110-ft.-long wall over the building's main entrance. It is an abstraction with overtones of cubism -an endless procession of angular, cloudy, faceless figures that seem to shift, melt and glide...