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...Birds. In the span of the ensuing decade of strategic missilery, the U.S. has accomplished one of the greatest scientific, engineering and construction feats in history. It has produced and deployed a versatile flock of big birds: the pioneering Atlas, the more powerful two-stage Titan, the stopgap IRBMs Thor and Jupiter, and those truly pushbutton solid-fueled mainstays of the nuclear arsenal, the mass-produced Minuteman and the elusive, submarine-borne Polaris...
...third stage of a Thor-Delta rocket burst into flames at Cape Kennedy yesterday injuring eleven men and destroying a satellite built by University astronomers. Three of the injured were in critical condition, two near death, due to severe burns...
...Thor-Delta combination was to have launched an Orbiting Solar Observatory, the second of its kind, next Tuesday. Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy, and William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Astronomy, are in charge of a Harvard team that has spent over five years building an ultraviolet spectrometer for the OSO. Their instrument, demolished yesterday, was meant to look at light waves from...
...birth, it was tucked inside a small canister perched atop a Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
Even the New Testament seems to offer two contradictory interpretations of justification. The pseudonymous au thor of St. James's Epistle urged his readers to be "doers of the word, and not hearers only," and sternly warns that "faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." But the mighty St. Paul proclaimed to Christendom that Jesus Christ had freed his followers from obedience to the duties and behavior prescribed by the Jewish law, and that "the just shall live by faith...