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Within the cabin, pressure soared from 16.7 lbs. per sq. in. to 29 Ibs. per sq. in., rupturing the cabin wall. Robert Van Dolah, a Bureau of Mines explosives expert and a member of the investigatory panel, testified that an escape hatch capable of being opened in two or three seconds could have saved the crew. Such a hatch is now being manufactured, but the one used in Apollo took 90 seconds to open, even in normal circumstances...
...world's fifth largest nation (3,-290,000 sq. mi.) and the eighth in population (85 million), Brazil represents half of South America's landmass, half of its wealth and half of its people. With potentially more arable land than in all of Europe, it is first in world production of coffee, third in sugar, corn, cocoa and tobacco. Within the vast solitudes of its mountains, rolling plains, winding rivers and lush, tropical rain forests, it contains the world's largest hydroelectric potential, one-seventh of the world's iron-ore reserves, 16% of its timber...
Shotgun Marriage. A tiny territory of 75 sq. mi. and 285,000 people, Aden sits at the southern edge of Southern Arabia, a wind-blasted wasteland of undefined borders and unrefined sheiks...
...lives was too routinely regarded. If the usual safety checks for an actual launch had been run on the day of the simulation, the accident probably would not have occurred. In future simulations, such checks will be run. Also, pure oxygen will not be used at 16 Ibs. per sq. in. during routine manned ground tests as it was that day: the higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including...
...patchwork holding of 3,530 acres and an abandoned World War II airstrip. Before McCulloch was able to buy an adjoining 12,990 acres (at $73 an acre) from the state of Arizona, he had to convince state officials that his plan would increase tax revenues. To create 25-sq.-mi. Havasu City, he gambled $500,000 on surveys, plans and engineering, even though the prospect looked so risky that C. V. Wood, 46, onetime Disneyland general manager and Convair chief industrial engineer, who is now Havasu City's master planner, told him bluntly...