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...Rockets. Fortunately for the amateurs, the hobby costs little more than their labor. Factory-built rocket kits sell from $1.25 to $15. One-shot solid propellant engines, the largest of which can sustain thrust for two seconds, are available for as little as 25?. With prices like that and the pastime booming, amateur rocketry has become a small big business: Estes Industries of Penrose, Colo., the largest of five manufacturers in the field, alone grosses about $1,300,000 a year. The present N.A.R. meet will make none of them the poorer; by the time the week was over, some...
...last five years have shown that the House Un-American Activities Committee can survive and even prosper without the full thrust of nationwide McCarthyism. Congressmen are scared to oppose the committee because they know such a move would cost them ten-fold the number of votes they might gain. The courts, while increasingly unwilling to convict uncooperative HUAC witnesses of contempt, are even less willing to pass judgment on HUAC constitutionality -- for fear that in so doing they would spur a major confrontation between Congress and the judiciary over the separation-of-powers issue...
...variations exist in the moon's gravitational field. At the same time, the orbiter's systems will be checked out by transmitting pictures of the moon's previously unphotographed right edge. After the orbit has been determined, a blast from the spacecraft's 100-lb.-thrust engine is scheduled to lower it as close as 28 miles above the lunar surface. Then, zooming around the moon at a relative speed of 4,500 m.p.h. at its lowest point, the orbiter will snap its pay-dirt pictures during a week of low passes...
...Polish & Thrust. Though no stranger to finance, Sherfield will be the first nonbanker to preside over one of London's 16 elite merchant banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...
Despite its trouble, Hill, Samuel is busy with plans to become British banking's undisputed leader. For that, amid the country's current economic austerity, the firm will need all of Sherfield's polish as well as Keith's thrust...