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...tips of two stubby wings. The Bell X-22A has four tiltable propellers in circular ducts. Neither plane has yet completed successful tests, but two years ago the British were already flying the Hawker Siddeley P-1127, which has a single jet engine with 13,500 lbs. of thrust. During takeoff, the engine's exhaust gases are diverted downward, exerting enough thrust to lift the airplane off the ground. At cruise altitude, the exhaust is switched to the rear and the plane flies in normal jet-plane style. The P-1127 has done everything claimed...
...Thrust. The bill contains sections dealing with discrimination in voting, public accommodations, publicly owned facilities, education, employment, and federally assisted programs. It also extends the Civil Rights Commission, sets up a Community Relations Service and provides a variety of enforcement powers ranging from court injunctions to jail terms of six months and $1,000 fines (TIME...
...many ways, despite other Senators' heavy involvements, it is Dirksen's bill, bearing his handiwork more than anyone else's. Dirksen's 70-odd amendments are less notable for their number than for their thrust. In essence, he has changed the bill so as to allow the states more leeway in controlling their own civil rights conflicts, and to bar possibly overzealous federal officials?such as an Attorney General?from charging in and initiating civil rights suits without first establishing a "pattern" of discrimination. On both sides of the Senate aisle, almost everyone agrees that Dirksen's proposed amendments vastly...
...development-a rare gamble in the Government-nurtured aerospace industry. In addition to Lockheed, Thiokol Chemical Corp., maker of the Minuteman booster, has put $12 million into a Georgia plant to build solid-propellant engines up to 21 ft. 8 in, in diameter with 3,000,000 Ibs. of thrust. Aerojet-General Corp., maker of the Navy's Polaris booster, is doing the same near Miami. The United Technology Center of United Aircraft is building smaller solids at Sunnyvale, Calif. The rocketmakers are all betting high that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will eventually be forced to call...
...strict schedule, that made the test so impressive. The plain cylinder, 60 ft. long and 13 ft. in diameter, made by Lockheed Propul sion Co. for the Air Force, was the biggest solid-propellant booster ever tested, and the simple fact that it developed 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, exactly as planned, was a technical triumph. Lockheed engineers also man aged to test several new rocket-motor features on their roaring monster. The casing was made of a new nickel steel, only ⅜ in. thick; the lining of the booster's throat, seared by exhaust gases, was made...