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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Shelley Berman slips in to take on Napoleon and Illya as the mad film director who decides to drop a ten-ton stink bomb on Las Vegas for a super-colossal finish to a film about...
...possible (ironic) from the context of the previous work." Such an elemental system is also possible in most light fixtures. Italo Scanga, on the other hand, is interested in "polite art." His sculptures are groupings of identical cylinders meant to be hung between the window-top and the ceiling. "Ton hang a work of art so high," he says, "is to make a polite gesture to the viewer who should not be forced to look...
...absorb, has been curbed by a drastic 50% devaluation of the piaster, as well as by new economic restraints worked out jointly by U.S. and Vietnamese officials. - Saigon's creaking dockyards, once a crucial brake on the war effort, have been more than doubled to handle 380,000 tons of cargo each month. An increase to at least a 650,000-ton capacity is planned for next year, but bottlenecks still abound...
Using the powerful, 16,000-lb.-thrust engine of their captive Agena, the Gemini 11 astronauts also reached the highest altitude ever flown by man. While consuming nearly three-quarters of a ton of fuel in a 25-second burn, the engine increased the Gemini-Agena's speed by 620 m.p.h. and shoved it into an orbit with an apogee of 850 miles-far exceeding Gemini 10's record height of 476 miles. As his ship approached maximum altitude, Conrad could not contain his excitement. "It's fantastic," he radioed to controllers at Carnarvon, Australia. "You wouldn...
...virtually undetectable operation makes it of prime interest to the Navy, Way is convinced that its greatest future lies in the development of super submarine tankers. Since the efficiency of an electromagnetic submarine increases with size, the visionary engineer is already looking forward to the day when 100,000-ton monsters will move silently beneath the surface of the world's oceans, carrying vast quantities of crude oil and gasoline safe from the storm-tossed water above them...