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...Minute Rescue. Some cities are making progress. Chicago police have their own switchboard (POlice 5-1313) and a communications center where three-man teams are responsible for each of the city's eight zones. Calls automatically go to the right team, seated before illuminated zone maps that pinpoint the position of all radio cars. Two men receive and record the details on IBM cards; the third simultaneously assigns a car. The whole process takes about 15 seconds...
...Carry the war to the Viet Cong's North Vietnamese sanctuary. This would require the U.S. to encourage and finance South Vietnamese guerrilla activity north of the border, perhaps even provide for pinpoint bombing of supply depots. As a possible compromise between withdrawal and all-out participation by the U.S., the idea is attractive. But some Washington planners fear that by thus expanding the war the U.S. would bring on a repetition of its unhappy experience against Red China in Korea...
...building rises, the tower crane hoists itself from floor to floor by means of built-in hydraulic jacks. It supports itself on the building's side or on a tower that runs up inside what will later become an elevator shaft. Its counterbalanced boom can deftly pinpoint a load anywhere on the construction floor, whereas crawlers, operating from street level, can only inch a load to the edge of the floor. And the tower's heights are unlimited, while the crawler can rise no higher than 35 stories without danger of toppling...
...With a pinpoint, mid-Pacific landing by Major Leroy Gordon Cooper, a roar of triumph and a burst of national pride, the Mercury phase of the U.S.'s man-in-space program ended last May. Last week it seemed apparent that, save for sheer luck and pluck, Project Mercury might just as readily have ended in disaster. In a 444-page epilogue to Mercury, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a hair-raising tale of failures, ineptitude and just plain carelessness among the private contractors who built and equipped the space capsules...
...atomic wallop comes in comparatively "little" packages. Yet many of these nuclear runts can carry up to a 100-kiloton load-which is five times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. These include the Army's 75-mile Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks...