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Since Russia achieved the same space feat last February by sending a satellite toward Venus from a similar parking orbit around the earth, U.S. missilemen, still trying to pinpoint last week's Ranger failure, looked for consolation in the near success. At least Ranger's complex instruments were behaving perfectly, and the Atlas-Agena combination had got off to a beautiful start...
...subbeats, thus disclosing how healthy the heart is. Inventive minds have been trying for more than half a century to devise an instrument that would yield reliable data. In New York City last week, Astro-Space Laboratories, Inc. demonstrated the latest ballistocardiograph,* which was developed with the aid of missilemen...
...months in cramped trailer quarters. For exercise they can stroll out to stare wistfully at 123 Marine houses that for nine months have needed only a day's work to make them ready for occupancy. At Nike villages in Texas, families have been prevented from joining their missilemen for nine more months for lack of housing. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the winter winds whip through the half shells of some $11.3 million in unfinished, abandoned housing projects-preventing the transfer of a B-52 squadron there. At Beale Air Force Base near Marysville, Calif...
Soon after the missilemen moved in, Principal Brown found himself with the problem of teaching youngsters who were scientifically more hep than the school's science program. In 1957 Brown raided the missile base for electronic equipment, and Biology Teacher Gerald Einem set up a volunteer advanced research class. Given their heads, Melbourne's students brewed up a brain storm. One built an artificial kidney, another a digital computer. They tried everything from inducing cancer in mice to making toads lay eggs out of season. It got so that local repairmen refused to fix anything at the school...
Though last week's spending decision pumped new life into the B-70, airmen can expect many another fiscal fight. Navymen and missilemen argue that ICBMs and antiaircraft missiles will have rendered obsolete all manned aircraft by the time combat-ready B-70's go on the line in 1965. In rebuttal, airmen argue that planes always will be more accurate, reliable and flexible than missiles and that the U.S. always will need both. To keep the B70 program aloft, airmen require something like $400 million in the budget for fiscal 1962. How far and how fast...