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...meet their worst perils. The region outside the atmosphere is not mere emptiness. It is chockfull, among other things, of searing X rays from the sun, electron-streams hot out of sunspots, powerful cosmic rays from the depths of space. These are checked by the atmosphere before they smack the earth's surface. Their possible effect on the crew of a comparatively thin-skinned spaceship is something to dampen the enthusiasm even of astronauts...
...Kurils deal. In the Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed by U.S. planes based in the Aleutians...
...James Aberdijian, Armenian . . . and yesterday he fell at Concord. . . . We know what you long for, James. . . . We know what your dreams were like. . . . They were as American as apple pie . . . the crunch of a hot dog when you walk on it on a cold day . . . the smack of a wet cigar when it hits you across the face . . . the rattle of cement when you're in the mixer ... the cry 'Play ball...
...first it had seemed ready to mesh as smoothly in peace. Reconversion had been swift. Less than two months after V-E day, the first Fords rolled off the long assembly lines-right smack into the U.A.W.'s demands for a 30% pay boost. Young Henry has solved that by i) patient bargaining and 2) showing the U.A.W. the precarious status of the company. He hoped he had also solved the problem of increasing productivity. If he had, then the cost of making cars in his superb production machine should go down...
...football field, so-year-old Doc Blanchard is the relaxed "pro" (coaches and teammates call him that) who never gets tough until the going gets tough. Then his lips smack shut, his eyes draw a bead and the opposition had better have its insurance paid...