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...missile-age warfare, a military commander will have only minutes to launch his rockets before a target moves on-or attacks him first. Last week the Army Signal Corps announced an ingenious electronic device that will tell him whenever a target appears: the RP-71, a flying robot that can take off from a launching rig, spy on the enemy from altitudes up to 3,000 ft. at more than 200 m.p.h...
...prop-driven RP-71 radios back target data it picks up by radar or infra-red sensory equipment. Night targets are lighted by a series of 300,000-candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being...
...Poulenc laboratories found that the drug made many people sleepy. For a world in need of sedatives, they took the logical step of trying to put together a related chemical that would make people even sleepier. What they found (in 1950) and first tagged 4560-RP, or chlorpromazine hydrochloride,* is now the most exciting new drug seeking recognition in the world's pharmacopoeias...
...Change of mode of election would not affect fundamental character of U. S. Senate or fundamental differences between it and Ho. of Rp.- (a) Senators still elected for six years: Bryce, Am. Com., I, p. 115.- (b) Senator still representatives of states-(1) Still apportioned equally among states. Bryce, op. cit. I, 99, 115; Turpe in Cong. Rec., Dec. 17, 1891, p. 78.- (2) New electoral body more representative of state than present one.- (x) People of a state are the state: Bryce, op. cit., I, 113; Mitchell in Cong. Rec., April 22, 1891, pp. 3,659-60.- (c) Difference...
...satisfactory. All the class worked steadily. The result was, I am confident, the missing link between man and monkey! I have reserved that look for use at recitations. The only question that bothers me is, When the intelligence left my face, where did it go? Perhaps to the C-rp...