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...Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: "The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track of the old ones...
General Electric, Aerojet-General, Pratt & Whitney and Rocketdyne are all working on plug nozzles. Tests have been promising, and rocket men predict that for many applications the plugs will eventually supersede the graceful tail-cone engine...
...intend to aim rockets at both Mars and Venus. Said he: "Instruments brought into the immediate proximity of the surfaces of other planets will permit, in the near future, the solution of one of the mysteries of the world, the existence of life on other planets." Blagonravov did not predict more definitely when the Soviet interplanetary rockets would be launched. But Western scientists pointed out that both planets will be in favorable positions late in 1960, and they have learned not to discount Russian claims in space matters. So the Soviet shots may come soon...
...wind could be ascertained in 192, with the inversions and retrogrades of the Cantata; then real twelve-tone sections appeared in Canticum Sacrum and Agon: then came Threni ("Threnodies"), a long (for Stravinsky) setting of texts from the Vulgate Lamentations of Jeremiah. Nor was it hard to predict that this piece would sound like Stravinsky, and not like the Viennese, the young serialists, or anybody else. I did find one or two places which reminded me that Stravinksy has been studying Webern (curiously, one of these, the Invocavi, but that...
...quarter and a new year with scheduled production 85% ahead of the final quarter of 1959. Between now and March 31, the industry expects to produce 2,250,000 cars. It will be the largest first-quarter production in history, if there is no labor trouble. Automen predict that 1960 sales, including 500,000 imports, will soar above 7,000,000. American Motors'George Romney, most enthusiastic of the lot, forecasts...