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...speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends are beginning to fear. The hundreds of English teachers he seeks, the new radio transmitter he wants as replacement for Conakry's present peanut whistle, the capital he needs for hydroelectric development, all could come from the West...
...Much smaller than its rivals, the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, it has three stages filled with fuel made mostly of a rubbery plastic holding together crystals of an oxygen-supplying material, such as ammonium perchlorate. The ingredients are first blended to form a semiliquid mass like peanut butter. This is pumped with extreme care into the rocket casing and cured by gentle heat to turn it into an elastic solid. Then a mandrel in the center is pulled out, leaving a roughly star-shaped cavity on whose surface the fuel will start to burn when the rocket is fired...
Henry silenced her with a wave of the hand. "Sue me," he said, scraping the bottom of the peanut butter bowl and starting on the marmalade...
Henry turned. "Are you trying to tell me I can't have jelly with my toast?" he said. He continued spooning apple jelly, calmly and deliberately, and when there wasn't any more apple jelly he began on the peanut butter...
...strong civil rights plank at next year's Democratic national convention; 2) renew and increase their efforts to dilute the authority of Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, leader of the Southern bloc and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee; and 3) refuse to back peanut, tobacco and cotton subsidies, along with other legislation dear to the South. "Cotton," snapped Iowa Democrat Neal Smith, "was hurt worse than labor in that vote...