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...about the future of France's former territories, two more of which-the rich Ivory Coast and little Dahomey-last week chose autonomy within the French community. Said Le Figaro solemnly: "A grim race is joined between the French-African community and the countries who swirl in the orbit of 'positive neutralism...
...first shot, scheduled for next month, will use a Thor IRBM as its first stage and is expected to put 1,300 lbs. in orbit. The instrument payload, said Johnson, will weigh "several hundred pounds." Later shots will use Atlas ICBMs as boosters and will put as much as five tons in orbit. Some of the satellites will carry live animals, including a "primate," and attempts will be made to bring them back alive...
...Orbit Geography. The Discoverers will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Florida's Cape Canaveral has the wrong geography for polar orbits. If a satellite launcher is aimed either north or south from the cape, it must pass over densely populated areas while still in the dangerous early stages of its flight. The nearest land south of Vandenberg is the Pitcairn Island group in the South Pacific, more than 4,000 miles away...
...Next Best Thing." Next day the Nixons moved into royalty's orbit, and there, beside the Queen, began to make more British friends. In cold, misted St. Paul's, the Vice President watched the Queen dedicate the American Memorial Chapel, built out of British funds contributed by British families in the austerity-thin days after World War II. After that he lunched with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's suggestion ventured beyond protocol chitchat to talk foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill...
When the spaceship has climbed above the atmosphere and is in orbit or on an interplanetary course, mishaps are still possible. Krafft A. Ehricke of Con-vairs Astronautics Division suggested that spaceships should be provided with "secondary vehicles"-space lifeboats that could pull away from the main ship and either return to earth or call for a rescue party...