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Taking two more strides towards practicing nationhood last week, the newly formed British West Indies federation got its first Governor General and chose a site for its capital...
...choosing the capital site on the island of Trinidad, a special committee spent more than two months touring the island, finally selected the inactive U.S. Naval Base on Chaguaramas Bay, eight miles from Port of Spain on the island's northwest tip. The site was one of the bases leased to the U.S. by Britain in 1940 in exchange for 50 vintage destroyers. Deactivated in 1955, the base has been carefully maintained. The existence of such readymade facilities was one of the base's most attractive points to the site-seekers. At week's end U.S. officials...
...Allen Hynek, director of the U.S. satellite tracking program, will leave for Teheran next week to determine the site of the last of 12 telescope stations which will track U.S. artificial satellites around the world...
...site of the plant is a hamlet named Morón, 125 miles west of Caracas. Last week once-sleepy Morón crawled with the activity of 3,000 men. The first natural gas was arriving through a 24-in. pipe from eastern Venezuela. With $60 million spent, construction was well along on the cracking and fractioning units that will turn the hydrogen in gas and the nitrogen in air into ammonia, the basic component of fertilizer. The chlorine-caustic-soda plant was nearly finished, will start trial production this month. Aluminum-hatted straw bosses supervised the building...
...helicopter pilots, all-weather blind flying without ground guidance at the landing site has been a long-sought goal. Last week in Dallas, the goal was reached by Bell Aviation helicopter division and Bendix Aviation, which successfully tested an "electronic road map" that tells a pilot exactly where he is within a 100-sq.-mi. area. Using the landing system, the helicopter took off and flew to within 20 ft. of its destination without the pilot's being able...