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...space doctrine. That doctrine insists on the importance of gaining "capability in space." Space, the theory goes, is a new medium that man must learn to negotiate, just as he once learned to travel on water. A satellite that merely goes round the earth is like a raft floating helplessly down a river. Only when primitive men learned to guide their rafts with sails or paddles did they achieve "capability" on water. Spacecraft must accomplish equivalent guidance before space navigation is a reality. Discoverer, manufactured by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., is a major U.S. system for achieving the assorted techniques...
...trip, he had offered some mild suggestions for change in Rhee's Korea. When the Seoul riots broke fortnight ago, Huh was in Rhee's black book again as "pro-Japanese." Rhee hates the Japanese, and as head of a commission negotiating South Korea's raft of longstanding diplomatic disputes with Japan, Huh had been more conciliatory than Rhee considered proper...
...Last week the Navy demonstrated the early results of Lieut. Commander Draim's idea. A group of Navy hands took a pickup truck to a lagoon at Point Mugu and unloaded a crude wooden missile about 6-ft. long. Navy frogmen put it on a rubber raft, paddled 200 ft. from shore and dumped the model overboard. It floated upright with the point of its nose in sight...
...Flutist Mann and his men played to a steady succession of sold-out houses, jammed with both European jazz enthusiasts and native tribesmen who recognize in Mann's percussive style the distant echoes of their own primitive jungle beat. To make the similarities more apparent, Mann incorporated a raft of native instruments into his group. And the octet learned from the natives as it went along...
...intrepid explorers scramble down volcanic chimneys, bathe in a grotto lined with glittering quartzes, stagger through regions of miasmal fumes and luminous algae, survive an attack by giant lizards, sail on a raft across an underground sea, get wrecked in the whirlpool that spins around the planet's axis, stumble into sunken Atlantis, and finally are sucked into a volcanic vent and blown out the top of Mount Stromboli (altitude: 3,040 ft.) into the Tyrrhenian...