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...will you have so much. And how much do you think the Crimson asks from you? If you have visions of sweat-grimed candidates, polishing the boots of editors (who, as some will tell you, torture little children for the fun of it), studying and sleeping fitfully in the outer offices of Grand Masters of the central Cambridge Region, ah, you have been misled, inexcusably and disastrously...
When space knowhow increases, says Dr. Carl E. Snyder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., spacecraft may be built largely of plastics, which will fare better than metals in the hostile outer world. Snyder and W. B. Cross of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. told an Air Force space conference in Dayton that many metals "boil away" slowly in the near-perfect vacuum of space. Plastics, which are made of long molecular chains linked and tangled together, are less volatile than metals, and therefore should last longer...
Whipple thinks that the earth's dust layer is the remains of comets, which bring fragile blobs of material from the outer fringes of the solar system. He suspects that when these cosmic puffballs pass through the Van Allen radiation belts that girdle the earth, they collect strong electric charges that make them pop. breaking them into microscopic dust particles that stay near the earth, perhaps following orbits like near-in satellites...
Freeze & Pry. Californians are proud of their university network, and well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Cal's physicists run one of the world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios...
...this year, when Nigeria, Senegal and the former French Sudan will have been admitted, the only sizable nations not belonging to the U.N. will be Switzerland (out of devotion to utter neutrality), Red China, Outer Mongolia and the cold-war twins: East and West Germany, North and South Korea, North and South Viet...