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Angry Jumpers. For the contestants, there were frustrations as well as rewards. After living on soup and sandwiches and sleeping on army cots for three weeks, the sky divers were in no mood for philosophic acceptance of Operation Sky Shield, which grounded all civilian aircraft for five hours on the championship's last day of jumping, cutting the last events finals in half. The Russians led an Iron Curtain bloc that argued in favor of using the foreshortened time for individual jumping, instead of the shorter team accuracy event that U.S. contestants were counting on to raise their overall...
Already adept at handling the federals, the centers might thus shield universities from Big Science's "triple disease-journalitis, moneyitis, administratitis." Able to Say No. Meanwhile, a hopeful sign is the new Federal Office of Science and Technology, created in June to coordinate the research contracts of 75 federal agencies. The new office will police wasteful duplication of research projects, and perhaps curb research empire-building...
...hard-luck boat of the trials was Paul V. Shield's Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, which managed to win only four races, suffered a crowning indignity when her 90-ft., extruded aluminum mast snapped during a race with Nefertiti, pitching two crewmen overboard and sending the heavy boom crashing down inches from the head of Designer Olin Stephens. But nobody counted Columbia out; many of her losses were by a margin of seconds. Even hapless Easterner, which won only one race, was not ready to quit, with Olympic Champion George...
...shoot the machine's high-energy protons at a beryllium target and produce an intense beam of pions-which decay rapidly into muons, neutrinos (perhaps the new type), and other nuclear odds and ends. After shooting across some 70 ft., this beam of mixed particles hit a shield of battleship armor 42 ft. thick that stopped everything but the neutrinos, which sailed on unheeding...
Craving Coordination. Although the U.S. is totally committed to the nuclear defense of Western Europe, the French do not consider the commitment foolproof. Should there be a limited Russian attack on Western Europe, U.S. strategy calls for NATO's conventional "shield forces" to resist, thereby providing a "pause"during which the U.S. and its Allies can decide what to do. The French claim they fear that the U.S. might then decide to save its main force for the moment when the U.S. itself is attacked...