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...thrust engine was constructed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. to prove the feasibility of very large, solid-propellant boosters. It is 100 ft. long, 156 in. in diameter, paced with 800,000 Ibs. of ammonium perchlorate and powdered aluminum held together with synthetic rubber. This potent stuff is cured in a single carefully shaped "grain" with a star-shaped cavity and burns from the inside out. The nozzle is made of plastic, spun silica and fibrous graphite...
Miners v. Users. The American Mining Congress, backed by the potent Western "mining bloc" in the U.S. Congress, is lobbying hard to retain silver coinage. But to ease the shortage, it recommends a reduction in the silver content from 90% to about 33%; that would keep the Government in the market as a big buyer and at least prevent the price from going any lower. On the other side are the silver users, backed by Congressmen from the industrial East. They are urging the U.S. to eliminate silver completely from new coins and melt down its old coins; they figure...
Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, who has appeared potent in the films of Ingmar Bergman, plays Christ vividly but all in one key. Though Von Sydow's brooding face can burn with El Greco agony, he seems little more than a cool, compassionate waxwork as he strides from Nazareth to Judea, recruiting disciples and saving souls with an unbroken flow of scriptural quotations...
Licenses for Trouble. At issue, as the smoke gradually cleared, were family rivalry and the spoils system. The potent Sananikone clan has never forgiven Phoumi Nosavan for kicking out their patriarch, Phoui Sananikone, as Premier six years ago. One of the clan, General Kouprasith Abhay, is military governor of Vientiane, and he has recently been quarreling with a Phoumi partisan, General Siho Lamphouthacoul, over who should control such imports as liquor and medicine, as well as the lucrative fees from opium and gambling dens. As a result, licensing patrols of Kouprasith's soldiers and Siho's police have...
...Until the U.S. balanced its payments in gold, American consumers would also have to reduce their purchases of foreign goods. Reason: since dollars would no longer be as good as gold, they would be cashed in abroad for gold as soon as spent. The U.S. would immediately become less potent in world economic affairs because, though it has twice the gross national product of the Common Market nations, it holds scarcely more gold than...