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...high-level argument cannot get much farther until more is known about the X-ray sky. American Science & Engineering is already planning to fire rockets to look for X rays of longer wave length, and it has a contract totaling more than $1,000,000 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to put improved X-ray instruments on satellites. Other X-ray sources will probably be found, and Professor Rossi for one thinks that X-ray astronomy may eventually prove as important as radio astronomy. It may be that charged particles blown out of the sun knock soft...
...Much Rain. LAMCO has had its troubles. Liberia's 180-in. annual rainfall has repeatedly washed away roads and railbeds. European and American managers quarreled under the strain of high-pressure work at high-level humidity. The Swedes unwisely promised to train Liberians for skilled-labor and executive jobs in advance, then found that during the hectic construction period they had no time to do any training. Though the company is belatedly catching up with its promise, it has ruffled feelings among the Liberians...
There were no civic receptions and none of the high-level contact that marked the tour of the 70-member HRO a year ago. Instead, Sproul said, "It was easy for the audience to surround us and meet us. It was easy for us to adjust to different conditions. It was impossible for us to be an American colony...
...result had been a foregone conclusion since the ignominious French defeat by the Communist Viet Minh at Dienbienphu two months earlier. Even before that, diplomats from nine nations, halfway round the world in Geneva, had been working feverishly to hammer out the final peace settlement. Fearful that high-level participation in Geneva might put the U.S. in the position of approving a sellout to the Reds, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were hesitant about endorsing the conference. But when French Premier Pierre Mendès-France said that he needed U.S. support to avoid unnecessary concessions...
...likely to invest in the kind of ex pansion that produces more jobs. A declining return on invested capital (see chart) is one of the reasons some economists give for last year's lapse of the nation's economy into what they like to call "high-level stagnation." The question is: Just what is an adequate profit...