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...could radio for another salvo of Minutemen, which would arrive in 30 minutes. It might even drop an H-bomb itself, but this would not be easy. When an All type speedster gets near enough to a target to observe it clearly, it will have already passed the optimum release point. Its bomb will have to curve back to the target under some kind of guidance...
...hydrogen fuel they burn has been the key-and the curse-of the Centaur system from the time it was born on engineers' drawing boards. As early as 1909, U.S. Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard noted that hydrogen (in liquid form, known as LH.,) might prove to be the optimum chemical rocket fuel. Its light molecular weight, less than half that of standard liquid fuels, gives it 35% more thrust per pound. But LH2 begins to boil above -423 °F., and because it is so cold, engineers usually find it too hot to handle. Most metals shiver to pieces...
...plans for the new Chicago branch indicate, among other things, that the adherents of greater selectivity have been silenced at least for the moment, and that the Legislature still regard the optimum size of the University as that which will have space for all who apply. Some other states have established two-year junior colleges for the doubtfully prepared or those with limited educational aims, but very little relief of this kind for the University of Illinois seems to be in prospect...
...conception of a United States Senator is not of a young man able to out-smile and out-handshake his opponents, who can swallow intellectual pablum spoon-fed him by a group of professors, only to gilbly regurgitate it for a radio and television audience at optimum listening hours. It is rather of a man, hopefully seasoned and matured by capable, intelligent public service, who seeks high office on the basis of his own merits, his own record, and his own ideas. Ted Kennedy certainly is not such a man. Harry F. Greene '63 Hendrik Hertzberg '65 Peter J. Wallison...
...Pays Off." Prime example of a company that has approached optimum automation is Phillips Petroleum. "We're getting into computers deeper and deeper," grins President Paul Endicott. "I admit that I don't understand it all, but the boys tell me it pays off." In fact, Phillips' accountants figure that, at monthly rentals ranging from $1,700 to $65,000 apiece, the company's computers pay for themselves many times over in the course of a year...