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...ample reason, within the achievements already reached or within sight, to be sure that he can learn to live there. Compared with the planets and stars, the moon probably has a mineralogical composition much like the earth's. In this recognizable state, man could live by means of today's technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer in the Air University Quarterly Review, store the sun's abundant heat energy (daytime heat 248° F.) with inertial flywheels (which are inefficient on earth because of atmospheric friction), and control...
Since the moon's escape velocity is lower than the earth's, a lunar-based missile would spend less fuel in blastoff, could use it to increase speed of travel. Even with today's rocket engines, says the Air Force's Singer, a moon-based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours...
...HAVEN, Nov. 20--Winthrop House and Grays Hall triumphed today in the championship touch football games by downing Trumbull College and the Yale freshman team, respectively...
Spectators at the game in New Haven today, as well as those faint-hearted few who remain in Cambridge, will be treated to raw, chilly weather. The sky will be cloudy with a stiff breeze and temperatures in the upper 40's most of the afternoon, but tonight will be warmer with considerable possibility of rain...
...Today, on the occasion of the annual football rivalry, the CRIMSON accepts, by default, the honored title of being the "Oldest College Daily...