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Even while on its Florida launching pad, the Army's satellite Explorer (official scientific name: 1958 Alpha) insistently broadcast its hoarse radio cry. Ten minutes after takeoff, Antigua in the British West Indies heard it soar triumphantly overhead. Fifteen minutes later it was radio-tracked over Ghana on the west coast of Africa. Around the earth it swept, but not until it passed homebound over California-nearly two hours after it left the ground-were the scientists sure that their bird was in a stable orbit...
...present price headaches are caused mainly by a hangover from a four-year spree. As demand began to soar in 1954 in the worldwide boom, Chilean, African and U.S. producers boosted production and opened new mines. Copper supplies were still so short in 1956 (after a 43-day U.S. strike in 1955) that free market prices in London were bid up to 54.6?. "Now," says Kennecott's Cox, "automotive production is down and so are housing starts. Utilities have slowed their expansion programs. Those are our three biggest customers. And there was that price; when it climbed past...
...Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar shell catches him in the leg, and he is invalided back to Milan. She is transferred to the same hospital. Days she takes his temperature; nights she makes it soar. When he goes back to his unit, she goes away to have their baby...
...lives by grace of the sun, so better knowledge of the sun is vitally important. Solar astronomers at 126 stations around the turning earth have been watching the sun 24 hours a day. To catch its important ultraviolet and X rays, which do not penetrate to the surface, balloons soar high in the air and rockets climb to the top of the atmosphere on a regular schedule. Special instruments watch the sun's glowing outer corona, which may extend as a tenuous gas all the way to the earth...
Space Toboggan. Professor of Aerodynamics Antonio Ferri of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn is a skip man. He believes that a hypervelocity missile should spend only a short time in the heat-generating atmosphere, then soar up to peaceful space to cool off. Ferri's missile designed to follow this skip course (a "damped phugoid" in aerodynamic fancy-talk) is something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride...