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...loudest continuous sound ever made by man shook both land and sea. For 64 roaring seconds the gigantic flame rivaled the sunlight while a column of light brown smoke climbed high in the sky. Then the fire stopped abruptly. The first static test of the most powerful rocket motor ever built was a complete success...
...motor nearly this big had ever been fired before, but the fuel burned so evenly, and its outside layers were such a serviceable insulator, that all parts of the steel casing remained at air temperature. The nozzle was meant to erode slightly as the corrosive exhaust gases raced out at supersonic speed. But after its throat cooled, the big nozzle looked almost new; about half an inch had been tooled smoothly away as if by a delicate grinding machine. If X rays show no internal damage, the nozzle can be used again...
...five years and $289 million of development cost, but it has not flown yet; and even more money and time must be lavished on it before a cluster of F-1s can be considered a safe enough booster for the ride to the moon. Thiokol's 156-in. motor, twice as powerful as the Fl, worked the first time. Its development cost was only...
...creations of Italian Automaker Enzo Ferrari have practically owned sports-car racing. Going into last week's 2,000-km. (1,243 miles) Daytona Continental, "Il Commendatore" had won ten manufacturers' championships in twelve years. It was a fine way to make enemies, among them the Ford Motor Co., which broke into its bulging piggy bank last year to develop a racing sports car of its own: the prototype Ford GT, a rakish, rear-engined coupe with 385 honest horses stuffed into a 40-in.-high package. Bursting with pride, Ford shipped its GTs off to Europe...
...Overmastering Lust. Yet Julian's real mistress is the great river. As soon as he can shove politics aside, he presses on to the Concession territory itself; this voyage of discovery, upriver for more than a thousand miles by steamship and motor launch, is the central theme of the book. Cora Almeida is put aboard by her husband to seduce Julian away from his loyalty to the Concession. The temptation is painful; in bracing contrast to most fiction today, it is overmastered by youthful lust for adventure and exploration...