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...achieved by almost incredible complexity and sophistication. The first-stage booster, built by Chrysler, gets its 1,500,000 Ibs, of thrust from eight H-l engines originally developed by North American for the Atlas and other mis siles. Their tangle of auxiliary plumbing is like a jam session of snakes, and it gives most engineers the shudders...
Auto carburetors clog, typewriters stick and doors jam; airplanes no longer land at the local airport. Slowly the city's drainage system is plugging up-and so much ash has settled in the Reventado River that a recent rainstorm sent waters spilling over the banks, destroying some 500 homes in the city of Cartago...
...Palm Beach mansion of Grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy. Shrewd choice of location. The manse fronts on much-traveled North County Road-and their product, cold drinks priced at a nickel a gulp, quickly attracted a large clientele. But shortly the cops stepped in. Peddling without a license? No. Traffic jam...
...dusty little compound near the lumberyards of old Stamboul, across the Golden Horn from modern Istanbul. There, Athenagoras rises at 7 for prayer, spends most of his days keeping up with a vast worldwide correspondence and seeing visitors, to whom he offers a tidbit of sickly sweet Turkish jam. Eager to prod Orthodoxy into a dialogue with other churches, Athenagoras looked forward to his meeting with the Pope. "The ice has been broken," said Athenagoras. "Soon a new era will begin in the history of Christendom...
...Honolulu or Detroit. Courts in Los Angeles have held the delay to less than two years. In Miami the wait is less than six months-an interval many lawyers consider too short to allow the medical evidence to "ripen." But in Chicago, at the other extreme, the traffic jam is backed up for a staggering 5½ years...