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...years, the loudest noises in the aerospace business have been the rumble of liquid-fueled boosters blasting spacecraft into orbit, the sharper roar of solid-fuel military missiles climbing into their long trajectories, and the continuing, wordy battles between the promoters of each type. Now, back of the racket, can be heard the insistent voice of still another competitor in the rocketry race-the hybrid that manufactures its power by combining liquid oxidant with solid fuel. Detractors may scoff that the hybrid combines all the dangers and difficulties of both solids and liquids. Its champions are confident that...
Marxism." By any name, it is spreading through the Soviet orbit and causing considerable ferment. Czech economists have openly attacked the Marxist economic system, and Czech President Antonin Novotny recently stressed the necessity of "material incentives" for the workers. Even more important for its potential effect on the Communist world, the new way of thinking has given encouragement to the long-suffering consumers of the Soviet bloc, who have begun to sound off loudly about the inefficiencies of a system that provides them with so few comforts...
Even the luckiest people need a star to sigh by-or so it seemed when Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 39, went backstage to visit Broadway's Fanny Girl Barbra Streisand, 22. "I'm really honored," bubbled Barbra, clearly launched into orbit. "I'm always interested in scientific and medical things. Whenever I go to the dentist, I can spend three, three-and-a-half hours there talking about nerve endings and things like that. But about those things up there-I don't know what a star's made of. Do you?" "Good looks-talent...
Nimbus passes close to the earth's poles instead of following an equatorial orbit as Tiros did, thus covers a new 1,500-mile-wide swath of the earth ev ery 100 minutes. Nimbus can photograph every square mile of earth twice a day; special infra-red radiometers shoot "pictures" of the dark surfaces...
...been spotted by conventional means. But neither Tiros nor any other weather observer has ever been able to make regular and thorough weather observations of the poles, where scientists believe major influences on the world's weather originate, the major deserts or the southern oceans. From its polar orbit, Nimbus will do all this-and more...