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...category of battles that were lost for want of a nail. Studying films and performance data, technicians have traced Vanguard's failure to a leak sprung in a fuel line. The leak produced two quick effects: 1) because an improper ratio of fuel was being pumped into the thrust chamber, the missile lost thrust; 2) escaping fuel spurting against the hot pump assembly caught fire, turned Vanguard into a grounded inferno when the fire backlashed to the fuel tanks. Total cost of the malfunctioning part that punctured U.S. prestige and delayed a $110 million project: about...
...gets on the upward track again. For many companies, the initial months of 1958 may produce sharp production cuts, painful layoffs and lower profits. But if the fall is sharp, the bounce back may be even faster. For better or for worse, defense spending will quickly provide new thrust for the lagging business pace. Beyond, there is the many-sided U.S. economy, in which a fall in one industry is often balanced by a rise in another. Autos may slump next year, but the enormous highway program, which started slowly in 1957, will pick up momentum, producing new demands...
WHILE last week's Vanguard explosion was blamed officially on "loss of thrust," there was no lack of thrusts at the U.S. Newspapers from Mexico City to Moscow, and at home as well, dubbed the dud a stallnik, latenik, flopnik, pfftnik, goofnik. For other press comment, ranging from derision to bitter disappointment, see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES...
...rocket is said by the experts not to have got off the ground because of a "loss of thrust." It is an arresting phrase. Loss of thrust is what the Western democracies have been suffering from...
Long Live Death. In their first thrust the black-turbaned, khaki-uniformed irregulars swept into Sidi Ifni itself, a small (pop. 10,000) fishing town of unpaved streets. They slaughtered a score of sleeping Spanish sentries and made off with some trucks and mules. The Spanish, who last month jailed a few local Moslems for demonstrating in favor of King Mohammed, had quietly reinforced the Ifni garrison with several hundred paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires. Shouting their battle cry of "Long Live Death," the Legionnaires led a counterattack into the hills that drove most of the invaders back across the frontier...