Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A 1,000,000-lb. engine, says Rocketdyne, would open new possibilities. Combined with appropriate secondary stages, it could put a 20,000-lb. satellite in a polar orbit 1,000 miles high. It could carry 6,200 Ibs. of payload around the moon, 2,000 Ibs. around Mars. With...
What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator? The Chinese knew. Thy were at war with Japan in 1937, and they invited him over to whip their hodgepodge of an air force into battle trim. Now he was in his natural element. He sent radio-equipped...
Help for Humanity. "When the July 14 revolution occurred in Baghdad," he proclaimed, "the meeting of the Arab people, O my brothers, came as a natural process. The agreement between us was signed long ago in your hearts, by you the people in this republic and in the Iraqi republic...
Into this poisoned atmosphere moved De Gaulle. Shrewdly distinguishing between the Tunisians' natural sympathy for Algerian independence and their own need for continued French economic support, De Gaulle withdrew French troops from southern Tunisia, pulled back to the French Mediterranean base at Bizerte and let Bourguiba know that he...
For three years the French had refused to run a pipeline from their Edjele oilfield in the Sahara (estimated reserves: 70 million metric tons) over its natural route through Tunisia to the Mediterranean, unless French troops were allowed to stay in southern Tunisia to protect it. De Gaulle abandoned the...