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...through his testimony, Bryant seemed to have a hard time keeping his rising anger in check. For a parting thrust he shouted: "Anybody who had anything to do with this story ought to go to jail. Taking their money is not good enough...
...brave thrust at sociological jar gon, Professor Alan Simpson, who next year will become president of Vassar College, once transfixed students at Washington University in St. Louis by putting the 23rd Psalm into educanto...
...Injections. U.A.C.'s 120-in. engine is a monster: 75 ft. tall, it weighs 250 tons, and each of its five cylindrical segments contains more rubbery propellant* than an entire Air Force Minuteman. While it burns for nearly two minutes, it gives 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, three times as much as that of an Atlas. It is steered by injections of liquid nitrogen tetroxide into the white hot gas stream through valves in the sides of the engine's nozzle...
...space program to rockets powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen, and its present hopes are pinned on a liquid-fuel engine called the Fl, which North American Aviation, Inc. has been developing for five years. It is a big, impressive machine, which will generate 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust; but though F-1 has completed many successful full-power tests, once in a while it "burns rough," shaking itself with destructive oscillations. No one seems to know what causes this dangerous instability or how to prevent it. Some think the problem is inherent in any liquid-fueled engine...
...Built for the Air Force, the U.A.C. 120-incher is part of Titan III, which will consist of Martin Marietta Corp.'s liquid-fueled Titan II rocket, already operational, with two of the new solid-fuel boosters to help it into space with 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...