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...first I thought he was from Princeton, there were so many of them around that weekend. He held a pipe in his teeeth, had a Scotch in his hand, and was dressed like the incarnate ideal of Ivy Magazine. But squelching a Cliffie with a crack like that overcame my initial repugnance, so sidling over, I soon put in a friendly word for Bertrand Russell...
...pulled out his pipe and mentioned the theologian as he struck a match. "Fabulous, isn't he? Depth psychology, symbolic meaning, Hegelian dialectic, expressionist art, existentialism, and all twentieth-century: complex, bold, systematic...Everything...
...over the U.S., homemade rockets are fizzing, exploding and-on rare occasions-soaring into the sky. Sometimes they fall to earth, their launchers know not where. A San Antonio housewife hanging out her wash heard something swoosh down from above, and a length of pipe buried itself in the earth close to her feet. In Boston the National Fire Protection Association urged that amateur rocketry be prohibited until a strict system of supervision can be established...
Designing a successful solid-fuel rocket is largely a matter of matching the burning rate of the fuel to the nozzle through which the gases escape. This is not easy for skilled experts. For kids with a collection of pipe fittings, a couple of chemicals and almost no knowledge, correct calculation is almost impossible. Many of their rockets are like the crude pipe-bombs that the Mad Bomber hid in Manhattan movie theaters. Some are much worse. Kids are apparently able to acquire most of the hair-raising chemicals that they have been reading about in books on rockets...
...nearly two months, gas pipeline rate increases have been held up because of an appellate court decision in a case involving the city of Memphis and the United Gas Pipe Line Co. of Shreveport, La. (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week FPC decided to grant boosts despite the ruling that pipelines may not raise their rates unless their customers agree, a decision that cast doubts on the legality of $200 million in recent increases. FPC now authorized the El Paso Natural Gas Co. to put into effect a $16.5 million rate increase, provided that it posts a bond for that amount...