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...latest addition to quasar knowledge was obtained by instruments carried aboard an Aerobee rocket shot from White Sands, N. Mex., in May. Soaring above the atmosphere, which absorbs X rays before they reach the earth, the rocket detected X-radiation from quasar 3C 273, from a giant elliptical galaxy called M 87, and from three locations in the sky where no celestial objects are visible. The recorded radiation from the quasar was only one-thousandth as great as that from a starlike object called Sco XR-1-which appears to be the brightest X-ray emitter in the sky (TIME...
...Mediterranean sky was clear, the sea calm. The U.S. Navy communications ship Liberty, a converted Victory freighter, was steaming west-northwesterly at five knots, about 14 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Seconds later, lookouts sighted jet fighters bearing in from the southeast at 7,000 ft. A rocket slammed into Liberty's port side amidships, igniting two 55-gal. gasoline drums; a bomb struck the starboard side. The planes, sweeping down in teams of two or more, raked the ship with crisscross rocket and machine-gun fire, riddling hull and superstructure with 821 hits...
...BERLIN. Moscow did its best to squeeze the Allies (U.S., Britain, France) out of West Berlin with the blockade in 1948-49. Truman's characteristically spunky reply was the airlift, and another Soviet defeat. Again in 1959, after Nikita Khrushchev launched his rocket-rattling "breakthrough" policy, the Russians began threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, thereby isolating and possibly dooming West Berlin. The threat to Berlin, repeated in 1960 and 1962, was defused by U.S. troop reinforcements. The building of the Wall in 1961 to choke off the flow of escapees was tacit admission...
Soaring through space nearly a million miles from the earth, Mariner 5 responded smartly last week to signals radioed from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, thereby ensuring that its Oct. 19 date with Venus would be as intimate as intended. The spacecraft pitched, rolled and fired its rocket engine for 17.66 seconds, giving the spacecraft a 36-m.p.h. boost and arcing into a trajectory that should carry it past Venus at a distance of only 1,250 miles...
...Rocket. With that kind of money at stake, it is no wonder that the competition is fierce. Current king of the pros is redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 28, the Australian left-hander who five years ago became the only player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of amateur tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Laver turned pro in 1963 and learned quickly how much tougher it was to play for pay: he lost 19 out of his first 21 pro matches. Last year Laver was the tour...