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...Rover (nuclear rocket) program, Seaborg said, has already tested a ground-bound model. Kiwi-A. It has demonstrated that a nuclear reactor can heat a flow of high-pressure gaseous hydrogen to proper operating temperature and can keep in operation as long as needed in a space vehicle. The more advanced Kiwi-B. which will be tested soon in Nevada, will use liquid hydrogen for its propellant...
...Lake Manyara, off in Tanganyika, an echoing gunshot stirs a huge, pink sea of flamingos into an undulating wave of flutter as they rise and settle once again. Down the corrugated road in a rumbling Land Rover come the white hunters, and once again the pink wings billow brightly in the sun. And then impatient stillness falls once more and muffles the lake...
...space program will not lead to the demise of non-spectacular, non-military scientific research projects if the selection is done wisely. Efforts must be made to leapfrog the Soviets in big boosters, by working on "far-out" ideas. A clear choice must be made between the Rover, Nova and Saturn booster projects, and that choice must be pushed hard, with work done on more than a 40-hour-a-week basis. Adequate deterrent power is an necessity, of course, but unnecessary obeisance must not be made to the holy word Defense, even though the more mention...
...waawu is covering the underdeveloped nations of the world. The raw material for the estimated $30 million annual business often results from a closetcleaning housewife's call to a ragman or the Salvation Army. The castoffs may end in a Baghdad bazaar or a peddler's Land Rover making bush-to-bush sales in Tanganyika-with a Brooks Brothers suit for sale at $5, Arrow shirts at 50?, a Saks dress at 30?. Last year U.S. exporters shipped over 200 million lbs. of used clothing around the world for profit. And though many a nation bans secondhand imports...
...left the stadium, thousands followed, pressing around his open Land Rover, which led the way toward the African locations. Alarmed, the police read the Riot Act through a loudspeaker, hurled tear-gas bombs, and advanced in a baton charge, finally dispersing the crowd in a hail of stones. But all that night in the dark streets of the African sections, the familiar cry echoed: "Uhuru...