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...Hurtling Hubert actually reached Soviet Russia, where its communication system kept running at top speed for eight consecutive hours. It is in constant television contact with the earth. Its fuel supply was developed largely in the mid-1930s, and some scientific circles feel a more modern source of thrust is needed...
Texas' Lyndon Johnson: "The Texas Titan, a big missile, and it is known to have tremendous thrust. But during the past several months, it has developed vetoes in its fuel system and various other bugs that have come to be known generically as proxmires. It has the best-oiled mechanism of any in DAMP. The Texas Titan is still on the secret list insofar as plans for firing are concerned. The decision will be made upon the basis of weather forecasts at the time-that is, which way the wind is blowing...
...long-40 ft. more than the 6-52-has six General Electric J-93 engines (better than 150,000 Ibs. thrust) in its peacocklike tail; they can be simultaneously hot-started for takeoff in less than five minutes. The plane will cruise above 70,000 ft. at 1,700 knots, three times the speed of sound. Its range, without refueling, is more than 6,000 miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes...
Five Memorials. Wingate's Burma raiders were called the Chindits (a mispronunciation of the Burmese chinthé, lion), and in their first thrust against the Japanese they lost 800 out of 3,000 men. His second Chindit campaign began far more successfully, but no one will ever know how it would have developed. Early in the operation, Wingate was killed in the crash of a U.S. plane. Military men still argue the value of Wingate's tactical ideas. The U.S. borrowed them for Merrill's Marauders (TIME, April 30) with equally inconclusive results. In this able...
...take the sophomore status option, however, there seems to be no change in the problem making their decision so important to the program: many of the students who are offered sophomore status have no real idea of what field they intend to enter. These students find that being thrust into the second year of their college work forces them to decide without the usual opportunity to look around...