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...turn of the century was man ready to turn his attention from fanciful to actual space flights. By 1898, a deaf Russian schoolteacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had calculated the mathematical laws of rocket motion and begun to publish scores of articles about space travel. His descriptions of earth satellites, liquid-fuel rockets, space suits, solar energy and the eventual colonization of the solar system, stimulated Russia's insatiable appetite for space travel...
...published a mathematical analysis of a meteorological rocket and pointed out that the same principle could be used to carry a charge of flash powder to the moon, where its ignition would be visible from earth. In 1926, he launched the world's first successful liquid-fuel rocket. It rose...
...liquid or powdered form, whether poured over a plate of chow or curdled in a custard, soybeans have provided the Chinese with their main source of protein for 3,000 years. Some people in the Far East even call the soybean "the cow of China." Fittingly, a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong, K. S. Lo, has hit on the idea of milking a drink out of the bean and building a prosperous business around it. The product, called Vitasoy, has become the new soft-drink craze in the British crown colony...
...drink market. This year an estimated 78 million bottles, second only to Coca-Cola's 100 million, will be sold from sidewalk stands, sampans and grocery stores for a total of $2,600,000. The drink's main drawback is that it tastes a good deal like liquid library paste...
...high voltage singer named Sheila. Their sound is all their own, but there are some familiar touches of The Lovin' Spoonful (Grew Up All Wrong) and Jefferson Airplane (Banana Split). In Banana Split, two electronic zaps project the listener, as through a time warp, into a liquid Eden of tinkling bells and clicking percussion. The Group Image calls it the Twinkie Zone, and it's a pretty good place...