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...aircraft flying over Russia confirmed the fact that the U.S.S.R. was developing both IRBMs and ICBMs. Says Schriever: "They were well ahead of us with the IRBM, at least a year ahead in their ICBM program. A missile gap did exist." After the Sputnik launching in 1957, the thrust superiority of Soviet rocketry was obvious...
...will be shoved along by six General Electric YJ-93 engines, each with 30,000 Ibs. of thrust. The engines' turbine blades are air-cooled to keep them from melting, and the afterburners, which are used continuously at high speed, run white-hot. The two boxlike air intakes, each one feeding three engines, are 80 ft. long and high enough for a man to walk erect in their gaping maws. They are rigged with movable walls, ports and bypass doors to keep the entering air at the right pressure and temperature. The engines are grouped close to the centerline...
...basic thrust of the proposal," according to Barnes, would be the development of needed research and teaching materials. "This would include providing tutors for graduate students working on a specialized subject in Latin American affairs," Barnes said...
...damp, she stiffened slightly: she was quite prepared to undergo pain for him...but pleasure--she was not sure how that could be a part of the general picture." Even more disturbing, Daddy barges into the room just as the "gardener would have entered her...with a terrible thrust to the hilt, so to speak...
...Seminary in New York, argues that the Western Rite "is in some respects the most important recent enterprise of Orthodoxy." It gives force to Orthodoxy's claim to be a truly ecumenical church rather than a "tribal religion" and provides "a new instrument for the reawakening missionary thrust of Orthodoxy." Others believe that the new church may help preserve the faith for future generations of U.S. Orthodox who find themselves unsympathetic to the Old World culture and mentality of their fathers...