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...that the Russians have done to stoke Washington's fears. U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Soviets last week conducted another test of a key offensive weapon under the seemingly innocuous designation Cosmos 365. They sent aloft a giant S59 rocket, apparently carrying as its payload a mockup of an FOBS (for fractional orbital bombardment system), or space bomb, which could release its deadly cargo on virtually any terrestrial target. The U.S. has no such weapon and no defense against...
...SUITE containing the Collier's classroom and offices, on the ninth floor of a downtown Louisville office building, seemed like a movie mockup. Footsteps of bosses shuttling through the outer office and past its permanently vacant secretary's desk echoed the through the vaguely uninhabited rooms...
...moon." A New York supermarket chain ran a picture of the moon-"238,000 miles from Waldbaum's"-and beneath it advertised extra-large cantaloupes at three for 89?. A Long Island harness-racing track accompanied a picture of an astronaut stepping off the base of an LM mockup with the advice: "Hey, finish it later-Roosevelt Raceway opens tomorrow night." TWA and Pan Am eagerly accepted a spurt of new applications for the first commercial flights to the moon; one recent booking was made by California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Medals, pennants and assorted trinkets suddenly developed...
...made by the President of the U.S. The winner will build the airplane that will represent the U.S. in the international SST rivalry. Until then, Boeing's SST-like Lockheed's which was displayed to the press last June-will be no more than a grounded mockup...
...plane or missile award since 1958. Boeing is betting on a swing-wing model whose wings tuck back at high speed and open out for landings. Called the Boeing SST 733, it could achieve the same speed and stratospheric altitude as Lockheed's 2000. Boeing is building a mockup, plans to display it around September. The plane has just undergone major modifications, making it heavier (300 tons v. Lockheed's 250 tons), longer (298 ft. v. 273 ft.) and more capacious (300 passengers, six abreast instead of five...