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...least oppressive realm, yet the velvet glove of János Kaádár descended heavily last month on a handful of "collusionists" who protested a government price rise. Even in Rumania, "relaxation" is absurdly juxtaposed with remnants of tough police rule: the Securitate (secret police) assiduously tail suspect Westerners...
...Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never dulled her own feeling for the Plains, to which she returned every spring, "when I see a mare's-tail sky and I get so homesick for Nebraska it hurts...
...Ordered to St. Louis for ten days of training with a "rendezvous simulator" machine in preparation for the chief goal of their space flight-a complex docking maneuver with an Agena rocket-the astronauts left Houston at 7:35 a.m., with See at the controls. Right on their tail in another T-38 was the Gemini 9 backup crew, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Thomas Stafford, who copiloted December's Gemini 6 flight, and Navy Lieut. Commander Eugene Cernan. Though an enormous cloud canopy hovered over much of the Midwest, it was strictly a run-of-the-mill flight...
...wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail fluttering to earth like dry leaves. Presumed cause: either a mid-air explosion or disintegration as a result of turbulence from the very strong gusts of wind that prevailed around Mount Fuji that afternoon...
Roar & a Crackle. Its eight booster engines spitting a 150-ft. tail of flame, Saturn 1B burned for 2 min. 26 sec., at which point it was 35 miles up and moving at 5,400 m.p.h. Next came the tricky second stage, a single 225,000-lb.-thrust engine powered by an exotic combination of liquid oxygen (lox) and liquid hydrogen (LH2). While lox boils off at a difficult -290° F., LH2 boils at -423° F., thus requires extreme pressurization to keep cool. Moreover, in weightless space, LH2, like mercury, tends to gather into a ball or spin...