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...seemed remnants of an earlier era-a time when flying was still for the birds or for men who wished to emulate them. No stub-winged jets waited to scream aloft, riding the thrust of a man-made thunderclap. These were sleek sailplanes, slim-winged, frail, and built to soar on the least suspicion of a breeze. Their pilots had come from 25 countries for the fifth postwar international gliding championships...
...Atomic Energy Commission to use almost pure zirconium as a construction material for nuclear reactors. To three companies-National Research, Carborundum Co. and National Distillers Corp. -AEC handed out contracts to buy $70 million of the metal over the next five years. From a trickle, zirconium production will soar to 2,200,000 Ibs. annually. Price: around $6.50 a lb., less than half previous costs...
...building costs-and home prices -soar higher, prospective buyers are also taking a hard look at the equipment built into new houses. In Texas builders of $100.000 houses can still pile on the gadgets by the carload: two dishwashers, built-in music systems, even air-conditioned doghouses. But in the lower price brackets, more and more families would rather pay for space, buy the gadgets later. Built-in TV is no longer in such great demand; neither are built-in dishwashers, waste disposals or other extras...
...real life they do not exist. No man-carrying craft has even approached space-yet. Now, after a two-year study, the Office of Naval Research and Douglas Aircraft Co. (builder of the supersonic Skyrocket) have decided that an "inhabited" rocket airplane can be built that will soar to 750,000 ft. (140 miles) and land on the earth safely. It will not be a spaceship in the strictest sense, but the air that it will traverse at the top of its flight will be as thin as a laboratory vacuum...
Rockets Above. When a hurricane comes within reach of Wallops Island, Va., the Navy will stand by to give it the works with two-stage rockets, which will soar 100 miles above it and take pictures of its spinning doughnut. The rockets' recording gear will be parachuted into the sea. When the blow is over, the instruments will call for help with small radio voices, and Navy rescue crews will hurry to pick them...