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...smugness was roughly shattered last year by intelligence reports of a Soviet breakthrough: the development of a rocket engine with a thrust of at least 240,000 Ibs., which could be used as part of the power plant for a multi-stage intercontinental missile...
...would not break his neck. Four strong nylon belts lashed him to the seat His elbows were lashed together by a strap behind his back, and his wrists were lashed together in front. His legs were tied in three places: thighs, knees and ankles The nine big rockets (total thrust 40,000 lbs.) fired all together, and the sled leaped down the rails, leaving behind ; huge cloud of smoke and overtaking a jetplane flying overhead. When the rocket: burned out. the sled was moving at 63 m.p.h. Then the water brake took hold throwing fountains of spray, and brough...
Stapp, the careful scientist, recorded every novel sensation. He felt the risin; storm of the wind against his body, am the terrible thrust of the rockets. Durin; the five seconds that they burned, they accelerated the sled with a force of 7½ to 9 Gs,* pressing him back against the sea with 7½ to 9 times the weight of his body For about 2½ seconds he could see the track as a racing blur. Then his vision narrowed and blacked out altogether. Since he did not lose consciousness, he knew that the Gs had drained the blood...
Manuel Gálvez' abrupt departure for the Panama Canal Zone "for medical treatment" thrust Lozano into the presidency, just in time to meet a major political crisis out of which he emerged as boss...
Polarity. In Nipigon, Ont., Corporal Ted Broughton of the Provincial Police was wakened by the sound of breaking glass, saw an arm thrust through the broken front-door panel of his home, yanked in and arrested Robert Stevens, 31, for breaking and entering. In Castaic, Calif., Frank Joseph Nemcek, 23, serving a one-year term for robbery, escaped from the jail, walked out to the highway, had the misfortune to hitch a ride from Deputy Sheriff Walter M. Doughty, who was on his way to work at the jail...