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...Visitors at the show flocked to a huge mock-up of the 13.6-ton Proton satellite, which the Russians call a scientific-research vehicle. Space experts who examined the mock-up last week were reasonably certain, however, that the Proton is a prototype of one of the sections of a manned orbital-reconnaissance vehicle or even of a lunar landing craft that will be assembled in orbit before heading to the moon. The Proton on display in Paris consists of an 8-ft -diameter core section surrounded by a 14.8-ft.-diameter outer shell that could contain instrumentation and life...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "My Name is Children" explores the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the students learn civics through a game called "Democracy," in which they play roles in a mock government...
...then, however, the Franco-British SST Concorde should be setting commercial aviation records. A full-scale mock-up of the droop-snoot plane was a big attention-getter at the air show. Larger than the Russian TU-144 SST and carrying about half as many passengers as the American version, the Concorde is scheduled to make its first flight on Feb. 28, 1968. The estimated price of the plane has already jumped from $7,000,000 to $21 million. Even so, the partners hope that when the 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde goes into commercial use in 1971, it will snare...
About 75 delegates, many of them cursing Harvard's name, walked out of a state-wide College Young Republican mock convention in Lowell Lecture Hall Saturday over alleged procedural irregularities...
...international pop-music circuit. They have a unique appeal. Like most British rock 'n' roll groups, they began by imitating such hard-rocking blues merchants as Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters (whose Rolling Stones Blues inspired their name); the result was a musically roughhewn sound sung in mock Negro dialect. In 1964, the Stones decided that if the Beatles were the goodies, they would be the baddies. They scowled, talked surly, and sang such suggestive leerics...