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...Kyoto radio station reported that the bird traveled "with fair speed" but at "a very low altitude." Warned of its approach, crowds gathered is a city part to watch the Ibis soar overhead, and an American tourist managed to snap a picture of it as it past his hotel window. Latest reports from Japan said the Ibis was flying West, toward the Asiatic mainland...
Tricky Rendezvous. Other engineering ifs proliferate. The moon project as it is now planned includes a rendezvous in lunar orbit, during which a small spacecraft that has landed on the moon will soar up and mate with a main spacecraft orbiting overhead. The problems involved are all but incredible. No space vehicles have yet accomplished rendezvous, even in earth orbit with bases near by and massive, quick-witted computers on hand to do their navigation. The Russians may have at least attempted the trick, but the U.S. has not, and it will not even make its first try until...
...House-approved totals, the Senate committee added $60 million for developing a mobile ballistic missile to be fired from a tracked vehicle, $6.7 million for the National Guard, $23 million for military communications satellites. The Senate bill included $125 million for research on the RS-70 bomber and Dyna-Soar projects, and $322 million for test-model work on the TFX fighter. It may come up for a Senate vote this week...
...automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system. "We pride ourselves," says a Honeywell executive, "on being able to control damned near anything." Every manned space flight, from Mercury to Dyna-Soar, depends on intricate controls made by Honeywell...
...foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League. It has lost money, predictably, but this year's overall attendance, 288,743, was roughly double the 1960 total, and for a change Cox envisions black ink. Attendance would soar, he is convinced, if the league could get a U.S. team capable of competing against the top European and Latin American squads that play in the I.S.L...