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...colorful monsters. The movie is the grandest spectacle to be shot in Italy since Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra (1963). Guccione hired some of England's best actors-Malcolm McDowell to play Caligula, Peter O'Toole for the diseased Emperor Tiberius and John Gielgud for the aristocratic Nerva. He then set about constructing half of ancient Rome: a mile-long facsimile of a 1st century street, a 100-yd.-long stadium, and a 175-ft.-long floating bordello, encrusted with gold leaf, where the wives of Roman Senators were forced into prostitution to fill Caligula's treasury...
Propulsion for the Mars craft will come from an engine not yet developed, perhaps the proposed NERVA (for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications). It consists of a small nuclear reactor that heats liquid hydrogen until it is expelled as a jet of white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from...
...Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats, Nev. When perfected, the engines could generate 75,000 Ibs. of thrust with half the fuel that a conventional rocket would...
...Middle East that many other Arab states would follow Cairo's lead. With that, Bonn quickly backed down. An appeal for help went out to Spain for a mediator who could camouflage the defeat. Generalissimo Franco agreed to send his top troubleshooter, the Marqués de Nerva, to Cairo. He swiftly reached accord with Nasser. West Germany promised an immediate cessation of arms shipments to Israel and an end to training of Israeli army officers. In return, Nasser promised only that he would not recognize East Germany "in the near future...
Project Rover, one of the nation's most ambitious space programs, is designed to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine that could carry man to the moon or beyond. Nerva is the engine itself. Rift the vehicle that Nerva will push. President Kennedy had just returned from a tour of Jackass Flats, 90 miles out of Las Vegas, where work on Rover is under way. He had gone because New Mexico Senator Clinton Anderson, former chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and now a member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, had warned...