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Standard weapon of U.S. nuclear submarines, the Polaris burns solid fuel, and it cannot be steered, as liquid-fuel rockets are, by swiveling the whole combustion chamber. Instead, Polarises now at sea use jetavators-movable nozzles inserted in their jet streams to deflect them and thus keep the rocket on course. No one likes jetavators; they are inherently troublesome, and their drag on the fast-moving jet stream soaks up precious thrust power even when they...
Isoniazid is a pill made from two ingredients: a form of isonicotinic acid, plus hydrazine, a liquid that has also been used for rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half...
...management decision of five years ago. In 1956, when Avco washed out of the hotly competitive appliance business and swung heavily into defense work, it vowed to pass up flashy Government contracts that offered more publicity value than profit potential. Avco figured that it lacked the know-how in liquid rocket engines to bid for the upper-stage Centaur booster, lacked the size to manage the complex Dyna-Soar space vehide. Instead, it bid successfully for products that Avco itself developed: gas-turbine engines for helicopters, height-finding radar, missile re-entry systems. Avco currently wrings 65% of its sales...
Propelled by his special-formula liquid fuel-brandy with a champagne chaser-Irish Author Brendan (The Hostage) Behan blasted clean out of the Celtic atmosphere, confided to Dublin drinking partners that he would like to live in the U.S. "It's a very free place to write in," he explained, "and there's the advantage that no one knows what you're writing about anyway...
...weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully to keep the conversation on target, but the table would speak no ill of Frankie. "Gentlemen, you have a marvelous way of making him sound like Albert Schweitzer," groaned Susskind, later was drowned...