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...Asian future that will be more and more mastered by Asians themselves. In Viet Nam, it has bought time for independent Asians to get on with the business of nation building; over the next decade, it will pour out at least $1 billion a year to provide economic thrust, including funds for a vast Mekong Delta project. Its goal is a community of nonCommunist, though not necessarily aggressively antiCommunist, Asian nations that will act as a balance to Red China and create a pattern of practical meaningful cooperation...
Using the powerful, 16,000-lb.-thrust engine of their captive Agena, the Gemini 11 astronauts also reached the highest altitude ever flown by man. While consuming nearly three-quarters of a ton of fuel in a 25-second burn, the engine increased the Gemini-Agena's speed by 620 m.p.h. and shoved it into an orbit with an apogee of 850 miles-far exceeding Gemini 10's record height of 476 miles. As his ship approached maximum altitude, Conrad could not contain his excitement. "It's fantastic," he radioed to controllers at Carnarvon, Australia. "You wouldn...
Science fiction is once again rearing its preposterous head. The Time Tunnel (ABC) meanwhile provides a new dimension for last year's Lost in Space. Project TicToc headquarters is housed 800 floors below the Arizona desert and is developing capability to thrust explorers into any time period, past or present. The first human test pilot is propelled back five decades, finds himself in the Atlantic on the Titanic. The captain naturally thinks his visitor is some kind of nut and locks...
...Russian Revolution tried to find new inspiration through purges and mass hysteria, Mao is attempting the same thing through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But sheer will power, even when wielded by men as fanatically dedicated as Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao, rarely wins out over the historical thrust of a people and culture as strong as China's. The raucous voices of the Red Guards could well be the death rattle of a revolution...
...court of Philip of Spain? On courtesans, and dwarf retainers, Velasquez has the final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging of a Savonarola in Florence or the thrust of the Civil War cavalryman's saber as seen by Winslow Homer...