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...encircled by its own cylindrical engine. It would be carried to an altitude of about 125,000 ft. by a more conventional plane and released at a speed of 3,500 m.p.h. The scramjet would then accelerate under its own power to a speed of 15,000 m.p.h. and soar to a height of about 180,000 ft., beyond which there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere to support combustion. At that altitude, a small hydrogen rocket motor would be used to kick the scramjet out of the atmosphere and into orbit...
...Purgatory; the church could draw on its "treasury of merit," an increment gathered from Christ and the saints. The plenary indulgence, canceling all temporal punishment in or out of Purgatory due for a forgiven sin, was deemed by St. Thomas Aquinas to be sufficient to enable a soul to soar straight to heaven...
Another space mystery seemed close to solution last week. After painstaking analysis of hundreds of data-packed yards of magnetic tape, Air Force and NASA investigators offered a tentative explanation for the failure of an Agena rocket to soar into orbit as a target for the spacecraft Gemini 6. Looming unexpectedly out of the complex vocabulary of modern missilery, the Agena's trouble sounded as old-fashioned as a Model-T. The Agena's engine, said the scientific detectives, had backfired...
...buyer has not gone wild. But to top off an extraordinary year-one in which the economy confounded all the skeptics by continuing to soar-few economists or merchants would really mind if the consumer let himself go a bit. That may well happen; year after year people have been spending more on Christmas gifts, and this Christmas the excise-tax cut is apt to increase the volume of luxury buying...
...defense spending to pay for the expanding war in Viet Nam. So far this year, President Johnson has demanded only $2.4 billion in supplementary funds to fight the war, but that figure is virtually certain to top $5 billion by the end of the current fiscal year; it could soar as high as $12 billion a year thereafter. In addition, congressional eagerness to expand Administration proposals for medicare, social security, regional development, education, housing and other programs will add several billion dollars to the Government's original price tag for the Great Society...