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...release the X-15. Walker hit the throttle. The rocket engine fired briefly, then died. "I don't have a start," he radioed. He tried again. Fourteen seconds passed ("It felt like five hours"). Then, thankfully, the 57,000-lb. thrust engine reignited with a roar...
...steel hands used to the authoritative roar of a huge blast furnace, the new plant that began operating this week at Niagara Falls, Ont., neither looked nor sounded like an iron smeltery. The plant, owned by New York's Strategic Materials Corp., is the first commercial operation of a new smelting process that could open a new era for the steel industry. It could also lead to the quick building of a steel industry in underdeveloped countries. The smeltery is designed to take low-grade ores, contaminated ores, and ores so fine that they would choke a blast furnace...
...Herbert, British wit, last week felt the pinch a bit. His income tax for '58 he dutifully had paid the state. Demands for ?85 more made the noted author roar...
...part in the Commonwealth." At week's end English-speaking South Africans were feeling vastly reassured, and panicky Afrikaner Nationalists recovered their courage. During the newsreel at a Johannesburg movie theater, the audience loudly applauded both Verwoerd and Britain's Macmillan, and was relaxed enough to roar with laughter at shots of Verwoerd shaking hands with Nigeria's black Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...
...chorus of pleas for higher tariffs and more import quotas on foreign goods always rises in volume when the roar of U.S. assembly lines slackens a bit. The current business slump is no exception. And now the chorus has swelled with the addition of some new voices: labor unions, long among the staunchest supporters of freer trade. For the first time, when the conservative, protectionist Nation-Wide Committee on Import-Export Policy met last week in Washington, some 20 labor unions were represented. Breaking away from basic A.F.L.-C.I.O. policy, which remains free trade, the unions joined the committee...