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...Following your guide, I called FRANKLIN 4-2181, Little Rock. A gruff voice answered in response to my request for "Rocket": "You have wrong number." Maybe the ice has melted...
...spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record-nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA's Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last week, the mammoth Saturn 5 rocket, an engineless version of the vehicle that will take the first U.S. astronauts to the moon, crawled through an impressive catalogue of superlatives. This was the largest rocket in the world, emerging from the largest building in the world, to travel on one of the largest self-propelled land vehicles in the world...
Shortly after dawn on the day of the rollout, a 456-ft.-high door in the Vertical Assembly Building slid slowly open. Inside the eight-acre, 52-story structure, the locomotive-size diesel engines of a giant crawler-transporter thundered into life. Positioned underneath the 36-story Saturn rocket and its umbilical tower-which were supported on six steel columns-the 2,750-ton crawler then gently raised its platform until it had lifted the rocket and tower. Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with...
...Paddies. Considering the exploits of the 1,800 copters already in Viet Nam, it is no wonder. Such choppers as Bell's ubiquitous UH-1B Huey and Vertol's 44-passenger Chinook are able not only to harry the elusive enemy with rocket and strafing attacks but to carry foot soldiers into battle at 150 m.p.h., eliminating bone-wearying marches through flooded paddies and jungles. Four $2,000,000 Sikorsky CH54A Skycranes, which look gawky but can haul 87 men or a field hospital under their bellies, have so far retrieved 100 downed aircraft-$37 million worth...
...stopping the war: "I was in a village outside of Saigon after the Viet Cong mortar attack on a U.S. airbase. Six Viet Cong passed through the village and retreated into the jungle. Then the bombing began. Many houses were knocked down and innocent people killed; a piece of rocket fell only a meter from...