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...with the problems of the ICBM, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), hard-eyed Ben Schriever (rhymes with fever) has the awesome job of developing an ICBM as a practical weapon of war before the Communists do. He lives with the gnawing awareness of what losing the ICBM race might mean. But General Schriever is a man who has always lived for victory rather than defeat. ("I hate to admit defeat in anything," he once remarked, without flamboyance.) Should he win his destiny-sized race for an operational ICBM, he believes, the U.S. will hold in its hands a vital deterrent...
...cold war's most cherished political concepts has long been that of the limited war, in which each side would abide by a sort of atomic-age Marquis of Queensberry rule book, refraining from using nuclear weapons on the ground that to use them would mean ruin for both sides. But though defense budgets have long been shaped to concentrating on atomic bombs, missiles and artillery instead of masses of infantry, the notion persists that there might still be a direct confrontation between U.S. and Russian arms in which only conventional weapons would be used...
...years. "The Hopkins," as Baltimoreans call it, changed all that. It demanded a college degree, then four years of medical study. This basic plan, with some variations, has been adopted by virtually all U.S. medical schools. With at least a year's internship added, it has come to mean at least nine, perhaps eleven years, between high school and the practice of medicine...
...should move quickly or slowly, 3) what relation the dancer's next movements should bear to the movements just completed. To convey these directions, Laderman relies on musical notes together with music's diacritical markings: staccatos, rests, accents, crescendos, diminuendos. Thus, a rest after a note may mean that phrase should be broken off abruptly, and a heavy dot may mean that a jump should be bouncy. A diminuendo indicates a relaxation of the dance. Laderman's notations, however, give no indication of the actual dance pattern; that is still the business of the choreographer...
High B.T.U. When engineers speak of fuel, they mean any material that yields energy as a result of chemical reaction. This definition excludes nuclear "fuels." e.g., U-235, but it includes thousands of lesser energy-yielders. Petroleum hydrocarbons (gasoline, kerosene, etc.) are the commonest aviation fuels only because they are plentiful, convenient and relatively cheap. Many other chemicals yield more energy. Hydrogen has the highest heat of combustion (52,000 B.T.U.* per lb.), but carbon is rather low (14.500 B.T.U. per lb.). Hydrocarbons, which contain both carbon and hydrogen, are therefore intermediate. Kerosene burned in jet engines yields only about...