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...Agena engine will send Ranger 685,000 miles into space, later to a landing on the moon...
...chilly waters of the traditionally all-white pool. Indignant apartheiders jeered, brandished placards and taunted them ("You're dirtying the water"). One white youth capped it all by shoving the fully clothed white leader of the swim-ins, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Lecturer Dr. Terence Ranger, into the water. Nonetheless, Ranger and his followers had made their protest against segregated pools...
Bailing Out Astronauts. Most fruitful fallout came from the Snark. A refinement of the Snark's star-tracking guidance system now helps to guide the Polaris-firing submarines and the Air Force's air-to-ground Skybolt missile; it will also ride on the Project Ranger moon shoot and the Project Mariner probes to Mercury and Venus. "Ultimately," says Jones, "the same technology will serve on long-distance airliners and ocean liners." Work on the Snark also convinced Jones of the need for a pulse-taking computer to run a continuous inspection on every missile. From that experience...
...looks. Since 1957, the Army has shucked off nearly 100,000 of its deadbeat "professional privates" that once cluttered up the ranks. A startling 83% of the enlisted men are in the Army for a career. Roughly one-third of all active-duty first lieutenants have had either ranger or paratrooper training. In the Seventh Army, nearly 75% of the officers above the rank of first lieutenant have had combat experience. "The Russian soldier is not nine feet tall to us," says General Bruce Clarke, commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe (USAREUR) and NATO's Central...
...guerrillas can be found inside as well as outside the Trung Lap camp. One night, a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into a platoon barracks, killing one Ranger and wounding five. A captured Viet Cong document states matters clearly: "One U.S. instructor dead is worth two Vietnamese majors. One U.S. major is worth two Vietnamese generals...