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Nixon-style, he would thrust his hand at surprised tourists, introduce himself, pat the heads of little children. Few knew who he was, but he was eager to autograph any handy piece of paper, insistently got himself photographed by camera fans ("Send the picture to me. Kozlov, the Kremlin, Moscow"). Accosting one woman during a supermarket tour, he asked whether she was the mother of a child who was with her. "No," replied the elderly woman. "I'm a grandmother." "Ah," roared Kozlov, "but you are so young...
Right from the start, they ran into difficulties. The Council of Europe, hailed at its founding in 1949 as "the first Parliament of Europe," echoed with platitudes but never with the thrust of debates that got anywhere. The notion of a "European army," with everyone in the same uniform, collapsed in mutual recriminations...
There is no more potent musicomedy fuel on Broadway than Ethel Merman, and she powers Gypsy with 50 million lbs. of personality thrust. But the show merely quivers on the launching pad. Its book is drab and uninventive; its songs are also-rans, though the trumpet-tonsiled Merman voice is always in the winner's circle. Jerome Robbins' dance spoofs are designed to show how funny-awful vaudeville was, and by sheer glut and garishness turn pretty gaudy-awful themselves. A Mermanly try at playing up Mama's spunk and jollifying her sadism fails when the script...
...liquid hydrogen's virtues more than make up for its faults. When it is burned with liquid oxygen, the combination gives 40% more thrust than an equal amount of kerosene and oxygen. This improvement has a disproportionate effect on a rocket's efficiency, would more than double its payload...
...hydrogen-oxygen rocket of appreciable size has flown so far, but for a year Aerojet-General Corp. has been ground-testing hydrogen rocket motors at its Sacramento plant. Some tests have yielded more than 100,000 Ibs. of thrust. The treacherous new fuel burns cleanly and smoothly, and it is not as hard to store and get along with as some doubters feared...