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...future of man is here on earth. Artificial satellites, bound to us by earth's gravity, can be put to man's use, but let some other nation bankrupt itself playing eggheads' games in outer space...
...still makes 85% of its sales to the Government. Along with AEC nuclear tests, the company is timing and measuring NASA's nuclear space engine, Project Rover. This week, NASA will also launch a geodetic survey satellite whose blinking light-made by E.G. & G.-will be visible from outer space for ground observers to track. The capriciousness of Government contracting can be costly for a small company; in 1958, after the U.S. declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, E.G. & G.'s contract with the AEC was slashed overnight from $5,000,000 to $1,250,000. Today, with...
...Many of the instruments and gadgets that go into the space-age rockets cannot be constructed except in sealed laboratories, where the air is sterilized, dust-free and closely controlled in temperature. Nor could any astronaut survive the blasting heat of re-entry or the paralyzing cold of outer space without air conditioning...
...Song III is from Franz Kafka's Diaries: This last week was like a total breakdown. . . . The clocks do not synchronize; the inner one chases in a devilish, or demoniac, or at any rate inhuman manner; the outer one goes haltingly at its usual pace...
...Baseball should be fun," Veeck insists, and he was good for a gag a minute. He staged a mock invasion from outer space...