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...today's locust fighters have a new and glamorous aid. U.S. Tiros weather satellites have proved to be reliable anti-locust spies. To cryptic reparts from wandering Bedouins, Tiros has added observations made while circling on its high orbit. Its cloud pictures predict locust-bearing winds, and prompt warnings can be drafted. Thanks to U.S. spacemen, African locust invasions no longer come as unpleasant surprises. Threatened countries can now count on time enough to organize a chemical counterattack...
This solar observatory, called S-17, will be the second such platform in space. S-16, which went up about a year ago, is the first of a series that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to orbit during the current solar activity cycle of 11 years. The Harvard instrument which S-17 will carry was made at the College Observatory by a group directed by Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy. William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson professor of Applied Astronomy, is assistant director of the project, and the instrument was built and tested by Edmond Reeves, William Parkinson...
...Moon Orbit. Hence the enormous prestige Nasser won in 1956, when he survived the massed assault of Britain, France and Israel in the Suez War. Arabs ignored the fact that the Egyptians were beaten in the field and that only intervention by the U.S. and the Soviet Union saved Nasser from collapse. What mattered was that Nasser had engaged the imperialists and Israel in battle, and managed to survive. When Egypt later proved that it had the technical skill to operate the Suez Canal efficiently on its own. Arab nationalists were as proud as if Nasser had personally orbited...
...cake, but they were no match for fighters who had trained at the HSA Karate Institute. In a matter of seconds, the carton containing the Geburtstagfestspieltorte had rolled down the steps of Claverly into Mt. Auburn Street, where it was crushed flat by the wheels of an HSA Ollie Orbit Ice Cream truck that careened around the corner of Holyoke Street...
...church shaped like the Mercury 7 on her Brea Canyon ranch near Los Angeles. "It will be open to the public for meditation and peace of mind," says Sara. She plans to have the chapel completed by Feb. 20, 1964, the second anniversary of Glenn's triple orbit...