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...outgoing president, the Rev. Ramsey Pollard of Memphis, are "an indication of weakness rather than strength. Lack of conviction led to these denominations' decline, and the decline will continue because such mergers are based on expediency and convenience. Whenever you sacrifice conviction for expediency, you lose the thrust that is necessary for growth. The cause of Christianity will be hurt." Dr. Duke K. McCall, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., had even stronger words. The loosening of denominational loyalty, he said last week in a commencement speech, "is fed by Biblical illiteracy. These men have...
...nearly ten times as fast as Lindbergh's, who covered the 3,600-mile distance in 33 hr. 29 min. 30 sec. But Lindbergh's single-engined (223 h.p.) ship went all the way on one filling of gas. Between New York and Paris, the Hustler (jet thrust: 62,400 lbs.) was refueled twice-once near Newfoundland and again off the French coast...
Fully fueled with hypergolic liquids,* the Navy rocket weighs only 700 lbs.; the 1,300-lb. thrust of its engine can easily lift it off the ground. Setting the rocket down gently and upright is a much tougher task. To postpone some of the problems, the Navy flies the rocket up and down a set of vertical cables. This takes care of wobbling and allows the rocket's operators to concentrate on controlling its vertical motion...
...soft-landing rocket has a special NOTS engine (named after the Naval Ordnance Test Station) with a delicately variable thrust. When it blasts off, the rocket climbs the cables as long as the thrust of its engine is greater than its total weight. When the thrust is reduced by electrical signals sent through an "umbilical cord," the rocket can be made to hover, then ease itself gently down the cables to a controlled landing on automobile shock absorbers...
...Navy is encouraged by its success in making an engine with a thrust that can be controlled so precisely. But engineers who have been working on the rocket since 1958 realize only too well that many a problem remains before far-flying spaceships can make such soft landings on their own. Later models will need stabilizing devices to take the place of guide cables. They will also need sensitive instruments to gauge the diminishing distance to the ground. But when such tricky gadgets have been developed, a descendant of the weird bar-stool-and-basketball may some day descend gently...