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...study of the possibilities. The test borings and surveys would take about four years. Once a route is decided upon and a final treaty written, construction will get underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route to $500 million...
...squad, coached by Ed Stowell, looks strongest in the distance events, but also has shown strength in the sprints and hurdles. At West Point two weeks ago, the freshmen scored one-two wins in the 60 yard dash and 60 yard hurdles. Lord and Terry Golden led the field in the dash; Golden came back in the hurdles, running the 60-yard course in 7.8, with Frank Haggerty one-tenth of a second behind...
...flight over the Pacific got its thrust by passing vaporized cesium metal through a hot tungsten filter. This action strips electrons from the cesium, speeds the positively charged ions out the rear of the engine. The great advantage of this process is that it requires remarkably little fuel-only one-tenth of that for a conventional chemical rocket. Even the smallest ion engine could keep a satellite on its right course for more than ten years by giving it gradual nudges. On a 300-day trip to Mars, a full-scale ion rocket could push five times as much cargo...
...must be dedicated to being the best-prepared teachers possible," says Sister Mary Emil of Detroit's Mary-grove College, who believes that "we are within ten to 15 years of establishing the sisterhoods as the best-trained teachers on the American scene." Since one-tenth of the nation's children attend Catholic parochial schools, Sister Formation represents a national asset that will pay off not just in better-educated sister-teachers but also in better-educated Americans...
...star practicing starts every afternoon, blasting out of the blocks time after time, fighting to pare a tiny fraction of a second off the time it takes him to get in motion. "It's a matter of reflexes," says Hill. "It takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react as instantly as possible." And one day Hayes will get a perfect start-the gun and the first driving step in the same tick of time. Both Hayes and Hill are certain...