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Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a sheepish joint report that proved both critics and defenders of the test were wildly wrong. The new artificial belt is unexpectedly large, strong, and long-lasting... NASA estimates can be interpreted to mean that some of the highest electrons in the new belt may last for 10,000 years...
...they predicted, would have little effect on the natural radiation belt, and any additional radiation that it might cause in space near the earth would dissipate in a few days. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a sheepish joint report that proved both critics and defenders were wildly wrong. The new artificial belt is unexpectedly large, strong and long-lasting...
...picture on TV too"), Singelmann had been able to muster only 65 volunteers, including one family of twelve, another of ten, and at least one integrationist Freedom Rider, who gleefully accepted the racist money just for the ride. Most of the Negroes arrived in New York and Los Angeles, sheepish, shy and startled by flashbulbs and inquiring reporters...
...rare departure from conventional political behavior, California's frisky Dalip Singh Sound, 62, turned sheepish (and turtle) over an enlargement of the federal payroll in his district. The occasion, in lamentation for which the India-born Democrat sportingly submitted to an initial symbolic shakedown: a beefing-up of the Internal Revenue Service staff in the city of Riverside...
...week for the government. Yet there was one piece of good news from Algeria: a military patrol near Philippeville rounded up 40 uniformed men wearing S.A.O. armbands; they called themselves the "Bonaparte Commando." The entire group was captured without a shot being fired, and their sheepish surrender strengthened those Gaullists who have maintained that the S.A.O. detachments, though capable of bombings and isolated assassinations, have no stomach for a showdown fight...