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George H. Blaustein, a graduate student in English who is close to New, played the piano during the cocktail hour. “I concentrated on playing, and therefore didn’t really notice any notable deans, professors and politicos,” Blaustein said. “Other festivities were lined up after cocktails and dinner, but unfortunately I was unable to stay for very long...
...Speed, in miles per hour, attained by NASA's "scramjet," the first jet aircraft to go Mach 9.6, or 2 miles per second...
SpaceShipOne's lift-off is inventive too. The vehicle is carried aloft tethered to the belly of a futuristic cargo plane dubbed White Knight, which takes off effortlessly and then climbs in circles of ever increasing altitude for an hour. Just when you think White Knight has disappeared from sight, SpaceShipOne separates and ignites its engine, which is fueled by nitrous oxide and rubber, and a plume of white smoke shoots straight up into the sky. Unlike the computer-driven shuttle, SpaceShipOne is controlled by an old-fashioned mechanical stick and rudder. That makes the altitude climb hair-raising...
...master spooks in the 1950s had designed the perfect spy--someone they could groom from the start and then send out into the cold, only to have him return years later to save the agency at its most critical hour--he would have looked a lot like Porter Goss. Reared in Connecticut, Goss prepped at Hotchkiss, studied Greek at Yale and spent the 1960s in the agency's clandestine service, overseeing covert operations in Latin America and Europe. His years as a spy left little trace on his rsum. He quit the CIA in 1971 after a mysterious case...
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