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...supports, prestressed and poured in position-first the cross-shaped trunks, then the great branches. With this sturdy but graceful forest as a foundation, the thin slab seems so light that it appears barely to touch the top branches at all. Its cantilevered edges defy gravity, its corners almost soar into space...
Titan HI has no definite military mission. The Air Force hopes to use it to launch Dyna-Soar, its controversial steerable satellite that (it is hoped) will be able to maneuver freely in orbit and land where it will. Another Air Force hope for Titan III is MODS: an inhabitable satellite ten feet in diameter with a crew of two or three...
...college). "Already our unemployment is concentrated among the 18-and i g-year-olds, and a tidal wave of them will hit us in 1964 and 1965," says Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board. The number of new workers entering the labor force will soar from 1,200,000 in the last year to 2,500,000 next year...
Pacesetter of the "soaring" design was the late great Eero Saarinen's TWA building at New York's Idlewild. Washington also went soaring with Saarinen in its new Dulles International Airport. Latest to soar is the most air-served city for its size in the U.S. No fewer than seven air lines have been pumping people in and out of Las Vegas through one of the shabbiest airports in the land. But last week's crop of gamblers, conventioneers, vacationers and divorcers found themselves arriving and departing through a $4,500,000 air, terminal that looked...
...week's end McNamara flew to the Boeing plant in Seattle. Greeted by Boeing President William M. Allen, he looked over the Air Force's space-glider project, Dyna-Soar, amid rumors that it was having technical difficulties and might be scrapped. McNamara also inspected the Gemini two-man space project of NASA in Houston, which seems to overlap Dyna-Soar in some respects. But he apparently had had enough fusses for one week. Pentagon officials said that McNamara will make no final decision on whether to kill Dyna-Soar or merge the two projects-either of which...