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...boosters such as Saturn (1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust), plans to flight-test cheaper, deep-space electrical propulsion systems in 1962, and hopes to make a manned moon orbit in 1963. But the problems of a round trip across 480,000 miles of space are fantastic. The greatest hazard is cosmic radiation. The U.S.'s interplanetary probe, Pioneer V, reported a sinister, unpredictable enemy lurking in space: wide-ranging "storms" of deadly proton particles, spewed forth by the sun, of such energy (up to 20 billion electron volts per particle) that they will easily penetrate the thickest protective...
Last week the Soviet embassy granted visas to Powers' wife and mother, enabling them to arrive in Moscow shortly before Powers goes on trial on Aug. 17, his 31st birthday. Four lawyers seeking to defend Powers, including Columbia University's Russian expert, John N. Hazard, were denied visas; instead a court-assigned Soviet lawyer will represent Powers. The airman will face espionage charges in the military section of the Soviet Supreme Court. If convicted, Powers can be sentenced to from seven years' imprisonment to death. Unless the Russians change their minds, his family will not be permitted...
Whitlock cited three main reasons for the change. Closing the streets would eliminate a great fire hazard, he claimed, since parked automobiles frequently block the pasage of fire trucks. Undergraduate parking outside official lots would be curtailed, while the eyesore of "Fender Alley"--Riverview Avenue--would also be eliminated...
...with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...
...summer school has grown so large that the mixers must be discontinued, since the largest building available, Memorial Hall, cannot accommodate both students and outsiders who try to attend. Last Friday's crowd pointed up the fire hazard involved...