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Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, Saturn will thunder to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,000 m.p.h. in only 2½ minutes. Then, having carried out the herculean task of lifting a 3,100-ton, 363-ft.-long vehicle through the thickest layers of the atmosphere, the giant booster rocket will drop away, and the S-2 second stage will take over. With its five engines producing 1,125,000 Ibs. of thrust, the S-2 will accelerate the shortened vehicle to a speed of 14,000 m.p.h. and hurtle it to an altitude...
...bullet had hit one centimeter to the rear, the Senator would have been in fairly good condition," Cuneo explained curtly. "But it hit the mastoid, which is a spongy, honeycomb bone. Behind that is the thickest part of your head. That's solid. The little bullet would have just bounced off. But hitting the mastoid, it sent bone fragments shooting all over the Senator's brain. The bone fragments are the worst part, not the bullet fragments. The bullet is pretty sterile from the heat, and once the fragments are in the brain, they don't do any more damage...
...degree of party chauvinism ranges from country to country. East Germany's Deutscher Fernsehfunk carries no U.S. programming, and ladles out the thickest propaganda. Every week, for example, it puts on a Meet the Press-type show starring the same man-Old Propaganda Czar Gerhard Eisler, now 70. Otherwise, East Germans get their TV entertainment from Fussball (soccer) coverage, old movies, and-for viewers within range of West German channels-a few U.S. series...
...tilting their chromosome specimens, which were taken from a human white blood cell, the German scientists were able to get a side view and measure their thickness-about four-millionths of an inch at their thinnest, center portion and ten-millionths at the thickest part of their "limbs." In Britain, where scientists at St. George's Hospital Medical School are also using scanning electron microscopes to examine chromosomes, the resulting photographs have suggested that chromosomes have an underlying fibrous structure. From these and other scanning electron closeups, scientists hope eventually to gain new insight into the complex processes...
Though the anti-aircraft fire thrown up by the North Vietnamese is the thickest in the history of aerial warfare-it accounted for the loss of 14 U.S. planes last week-U.S. pilots for most of the war were little bothered by the North's MIG air force. The MIGs frequently did not come off the ground to meet U.S. pilots or, when they did, tried merely to force U.S. planes to jettison their bombs and defend themselves. Last August, the U.S. air commander in Viet Nam, Lieut. General William ("Spike") Momyer, told a Senate subcommittee: "We have...