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...launching of a 20-odd-lb. satellite (less than one-eighth as heavy as Russia's claim for Sputnik). The stretched-out schedule calls for launching smaller test satellites late this year, orbiting the first 21½-lb. ball next spring. The satellites themselves are ready to soar, reports Vanguard's softspoken, pipe-puffing Director John P. Hagen. But the launching vehicle is still undergoing tests. Its first stage, an adaptation of the Navy's Viking, has to work perfectly to do the job: the engine's 27,000-lb. thrust is barely powerful enough...
...twin tanks for the liquid propane fuel on his back, maneuvers by hand-held throttle and blade-pitch controls. One de luxe feature: pushbutton starting fired by three flashlight batteries. Gluhareff so far has tested his helicopter in tethered flight, estimates that when he tries free flight he will soar to 4,500 feet, buzz along at 50 m.p.h., have a cruising range of 25 miles, float lightly to earth if the engines conk...
...Dramatic Soprano Anita Cerquetti, 26, has one of the most sumptuous voices to soar out of Italy since Tebaldi. Large-volumed and agile of voice, she scored her first major success in Bellini's Norma at Verona four years ago, has since become a widely acclaimed guest singer of the standard Verdian repertory. Her voice has appealed to most critics as a cross between Tebaldi's "silky elasticity" and Callas' bite and thrust. Big-boned and fleshy-faced, she has been most often criticized for carrying too much weight to put across the dramatic illusion her roles...
Pressure v. Pressure. How did the Farben successors soar so high so fast? Answered a West German industrialist: "In physics we have the law that pressure brings forth counterpressure. The Allies exerted great pressure on Germany. In return, we exerted great counterpressure. And to get our minds off the dark future, we also worked like hell...
...Chase Manhattan Bank boosted loans nearly 9% to $3.8 billion, and saw net earnings soar 17% to $26.7 million...