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...purpose of the society, as stated in its constitution, is "to provide a center for rocket research and experimentation." For this spring, the club plans a series of discussion groups to be led by various local profesors. They also plan the construction and static testing of a rocket...
...observer, looking through an instrument called a monochromatic heliograph, spotted a flare of breathtaking brilliance leaping out from the Sun's surface. Almost before he could notify the World Data Center on Solar Activity at Boulder, Colorado, confirmation came from the Radio Astronomy Station at Ft. Davis. Bursts of static at 448 megacycles were so loud that the listener called it "Magnitude Major Plus...
...distance-measuring equipment. But a navigator or pilot can get a fix by tuning in two stations and getting his bearing from each. His position is the point where the two bearing lines cross on the chart. VOR/DMET uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters, their range may be only a few miles...
...static to suggest history in the making, The Rivalry is fraught with tragic history in the offing-the Civil War. Its great protagonists seem a little like daguerreotypes of themselves, but the issue of right and wrong, which they debated, never fades...
...Spain, and in some ways Author Goytisolo's hot-blooded young assassins are unmistakably Spanish. But there are gangs like the one he describes in just about every large city in the world. The Young Assassins has the virtue of sympathetically describing youth's restlessness in a static society. Its weakness is its failure to dramatize psychological motives, which its author is precocious enough to sense but not mature enough to understand...