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...Targets. Everyone likes Rover -the White House, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Senator Anderson insists that nuclear-powered rocketry is as important to U.S. security as the hydrogen bomb. Moreover, the theory behind Rover is disarmingly simple. In present U.S. and Russian space rockets, thrust is produced by the combustion of highly volatile chemical propellants. In Rover, a small nuclear reactor will generate heat that will expand hydrogen. This, in turn, will be directed out of the rear of the rockets to provide thrust. Because the reactor and the hydrogen take up relatively little room...
...memory of Phenix City's past gives real thrust to the new effort. Says Otis Taff, 57, a grocer and county commissioner: "Oh. we have a few who would like it the other way. but a majority want the town to be clean. We know we can't be an average town with average people doing average things. We have to be outstanding people doing outstanding things to overcome our past." Adds Finance Commissioner James Gresham, 39: "The amazing thing about the folks of Phenix City is that they all want something a little bit better. You know...
...Real Thrust. Having lost its main industries. Phenix City seemed about to die. But slowly, steadily, it has risen from the ashes of its vice. Last week Phenix City was grading land for a modern river port that will become a transfer point for shipping to such major nearby cities as Atlanta and Birmingham. On blueprints or in the works are a new $400,000 municipal building, two fire stations, a bank, an office building, a post office, a bridge, a $3,700,000 sewer program. New schools have shot up. 20 miles of dirt streets have been paved...
Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
...dissector was Howard K. Smith, 48, a grey liberal who joined ABC last February after being let go by CBS because of his unconquerable tendency to overeditorialize. Smith's scalpel was a hastily assembled, half-hour TV panel discussion entitled "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon" and thrust into prime evening time, pre-empted from a Veterans Day tribute called "The Fighting...