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In the cramped cockpit of the black, needle-nosed little aircraft shackled under the right wing of a B-52 jet bomber. Air Force Major Robert White threw a releasing switch, moments later pulled back on his throttle. By the time he returned to earth, Test Pilot White, at the...
Future Debt. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is testing the X-15, emphasizes that it is a pure research airplane with no immediate applications. But it is no secret that the X-15 is an important step toward controlled re-entry from space. The first humans who return...
Pravda's picture shows Venusnik as shaped like a snub-nosed howitzer shell, 80 in. long and 41 in. in diameter. Protruding from its body is an assembly of aerials that resembles a windmill, and a pair of wings that house scientific gear and solar batteries. Included in Venusnik...
It must have been a rough day for Slater, who was a member of the 1956 British Olympic team and is the Canadian national champion in the 440. Saturday, though, Slater couldn't even win in his specialty, as sophomore George Mulligan nosed him out at the finish with a...
Peintre cracked like a dropped mirror, implicating a burly, broken-nosed ex-Foreign Legionnaire as his fellow assassin. They had killed Popie, said Peintre, for $400 each, which had been given them by Paul Agay, 32, an executive of a soap company, who had told them: "That bastard has to...