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Achievements that even the Western scientific community only dimly realized a few years ago now make up a dazzling catalogue that any country could boast about. Sputniks and ICBMs aside, Russia is pushing ahead at flank speed in vast areas of science, and of all programs put through for the International Geophysical Year, its is the biggest and most ambitious. The Soviet Union has the largest (10 billion synchrocyclotron volts) particle accelerator in the world-nearly twice as powerful as the one at Berkeley, Calif., though it has not yet lived up to its expensive expectations. Russia put its first...
...After the attacks," said Frondizi, "there were oil slicks on the surface of the sea as when a submarine is damaged." Sonar gear aboard the Argentine ships established that the unidentified sub was a "high-speed" modern craft, i.e., U.S., British or Russian...
...negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some DC-7s as a down payment on 30 DC-8s; Lockheed is dickering in the same way to sell its turboprop Electras. All told, U.S. airlines have ordered 257 jets and 172 turboprops. When these come into service, their extra speed and capacity will send about 700 piston aircraft onto the used-plane market...
...Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., who got to 126,000 ft. (24 miles) in the U.S.A.F.'s X2, for "a couple of minutes" in 1956. * About 38 hours, piled up in hundreds of missions and thousands of maneuvers (flying a Keplerian trajectory or parabolic outside-loop curve in high-speed jet airplanes), for periods from 30 to 43 seconds...
Sighted Sub, Sank Same. In Knoxville, Tenn., track and field officials disqualified Miler Jerry Long, who put on a stirring burst of speed while finishing a high-school race -because he had slipped into the race on the last lap when Teammate John Looney dropped...