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...scare that flitted around the world when U.S. marines splashed ashore in Lebanon had died away. The immediate U.S. objective of propping up the legitimate government of Lebanon had been achieved-and without gunfire. The West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...ignore appeals for help from supporters like Lebanon, to watch unmoved as friendly statesmen are mobbed and countries like Iraq are convulsed, to make no effort to reassure other friends in trouble like the Jordanians would be to abdicate the role that history and our wealth and energy have thrust upon...
...recent evening, Japanese at their 14-inch TV screens watched breathlessly as a topknotted samurai disarmed his opponent after some ferocious swordplay. The cowering loser awaited the death thrust; instead, the victor tossed him a bottle of tranquilizer pills, shouted the manufacturer's name and advised: "If you took these regularly, you wouldn't get into such...
...more sophisticated schemes for long-distance flights. One of these is an engine whose nuclear fuel is a uranium-rich gas mixed with the hydrogen propellant. When the nuclear reaction starts, both gases will get hot and blast out of the nozzle. This would produce a magnificent short-duration thrust, but the wasted uranium would cost something like $150 million per takeoff. The way around this little difficulty would be some system to keep the heavy uranium atoms in the reaction chamber while permitting the hydrogen to escape. No one now knows...
Getting off the ground, say the nuclear rocketmen, is only part of the space-flight problem. After the earth has been left behind, and the ship is moving essentially in gravity-free space, it will need an engine that can exert a small thrust for a long time. Several nuclear systems look good for this purpose. A small stream of propellant could be heated by an electric arc, shooting out of the nozzle at very great speed. Or the propellant could be ionized and shot away from the rocket by electrical repulsion. The thrust of this system would be extremely...