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Fifty miles above the earth at more than 3,500 m.p.h., America's needle-nosed X-15 barely ruffles the underskirts of space. U.S. and Soviet astronauts have ventured far higher, faster and for longer flights. But for Air Force Major Michael J. Adams, 37, riding the stub-winged X-15 rocket ship on its wild ten-minute flights beyond the atmosphere and back presented a greater challenge. He too had been chosen as an astronaut. Repeated slippage of the Manned Orbit ing Laboratory program left him impatient to get off the ground, and he asked...
Resembling giant stub-winged dragonflies, OGOs circle in polar and equatorial orbits at altitudes of 170 to 90,000 miles. So far, they have logged 500,000 hours studying near-earth environment and the sun's effects on it. OGOs have recorded cosmic rays, studied very low-frequency noise in the ionosphere and fluctuations of the earth's magnetic field...
...Detroit law practice. A.M.C.'s crusty Roy Abernethy remained as president and chief executive, but Evans quickly made it obvious that he intends to be the new giver of gospel. While Abernethy scowled at a press conference and puffed a six-inch cigar down to the stub, Evans committed the automaking heresy of knocking the styling of his company's cars. For this he blamed-however illogically-former A.M.C. Boss George Romney, who left a full four years ago to make his successful bid to become Governor of Michigan. As a result of Romney's legacy...
There, Dr. Kalnberz severs one end of the cadaver-finger roll, opens the stub from which the patient lost a finger, joins the implanted bone with a metal pin to whatever natural finger bone the patient has left. He also stitches ligaments and tendons together. The patient's bandaged hand is strapped to his belly, and stays in that position for five to six weeks. Only after that is the new finger cut loose from its remaining abdominal attachment. Two to four months later still, Dr. Kalnberz does whatever cosmetic remodeling is necessary on the transplanted finger...
Unfriendly to Foreigners. Nor has Viet Nam historically taken kindly to nation builders, most of whom were colonialists at heart. For more than a thousand years the Vietnamese stub bornly resisted assimilation into a Chi nese kingdom, finally drove out the hated invaders from the north...