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This is not to say that the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has accomplished nothing. It has enabled some Negroes to move to suburbs and outer parts of the city, where they otherwise could not have lived. And a law passed by the legislature last spring extended coverage of the Fair Housing Act to all dwellings except two-family houses in which the owner occupies one unit. But if the MCAD is to ensure an open housing market, it needs several additional powers enumerated in the Committee's report...
...offices, Dean Rusk is largely an unknown quantity himself. He has met nearly every Foreign Minister on earth. After the U.N. convened in September, he chatted privately with some 70 of them in a hectic nine-day stretch, kept so tight a schedule that one U.S. official compared his outer office to "a dentist's waiting room." Despite his distaste for "personal" diplomacy, he has logged nearly 100,000 miles a year in trips abroad...
...when Pratt & Whitney engineers set out to develop the Centaur's engines, they boldly planned to turn that touchy temperament to their advantage. In the final product, frigid LH2 does two jobs as it courses toward ignition. First, it is pumped through an outer jacket where it cools the thrust chamber's fierce 6,000° heat, and in the process vaporizes itself for ultimate burning. But before it reaches the chamber, the gas is expanding fast enough to spin an auxiliary turbine, which pumps more fuel and oxidizer into the cooling jacket. Thus the LH2 practically lifts...
First Enactment. Though they have yet to be put to use, in some respects the new law books have already been superseded. Last week the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space approved a resolution that was agreed on beforehand by the U.S. and Russia. The resolution states that no nation can claim sovereignty over the moon and planets; that states are liable for damages their space vehicles cause; that an astronaut who makes an emergency landing will be promptly repatriated along with whatever remains of his space ship...
...even in personal affairs. If you were on his side, you were really in and that was tremendous. If you were not, he would woo you if he wanted you and could usually succeed in getting his way. If he didn't want you, he would cast you in outer darkness...