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...pictures. All the world is willing to employ him at ?1,000 a picture, yet he never has a farthing!" The 29 ladies and gentlemen who graced the walls of the Worcester Museum last week gave their own explanation of why Lawrence's reputation could soar and then plummet, but could never be forgotten...
...side of a slim 40-ft. fuselage, gave the U-2 the look of a high-performance sailplane. They suggest a range far beyond that circumscribed by the fuel supply. Editor Sekigawa, a glider pilot himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost surely be coaxed to altitudes close...
...SPACE CONTRACTS will help U.S. planemakers take up slack from military-aircraft cutbacks. The latest: $65 million to Douglas for Saturn second-stage units; $50 million to Lockheed for 16 Agena-B rocket vehicles; $29.7 million to Boeing and Martin to start work on Dyna-Soar space glider. NASA space spending is expected to total $2.5 billion annually...
Missiles and satellite-launching rockets are plenty complicated in themselves, but the pads from which they take off are even more complex. They are tangles of cranes, wires, dugouts and flame-deflectors, and as they increase in size they soar in cost. Besides being expensive, the launching pads are vulnerable; if a present-day rocket explodes on its pad, it may do millions of dollars of damage. The pad for the upcoming Saturn rocket, for example, will cost something like $30 million, and if a Saturn explodes on takeoff, it will destroy most of this investment and spread devastation...
...quarters of the Arab world when Turkey's Premier Adrian Menderes and the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev last week accepted reciprocal invitations for official visits. But then, everybody's visiting everybody these days. Menderes will toddle up to Moscow some time in July; Khrushchev will soar down to Ankara at a later date...