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...Ton of Rice. In Peking, the Chinese Foreign Ministry fired off angry protests, then in retaliation for the "unjustified and shameful" expulsion of Diplomat Li, ordered Dutch Charge d'Affaires G. J. Jongejans to leave Red China. It was a hollow ouster, for Peking cops promptly took up positions outside the Dutch legation in order to keep Jongejans a prisoner until the welders in The Hague were released. The whole affair, railed the enraged Chinese, had nothing at all to do with kidnaping, but really involved a malicious plot by the CIA and reflected "Dutch government support...
Suddenly the steep plummeting dive changed to a semblance of flight. Under control of Veteran NASA Test Pilot Milton Thompson, the experimental M2-F2 "lifting body" demonstrated an uncanny ability to maneuver. Wingless and powerless, the 21-ton, 22-ft.-long craft swung through two 90° turns as it dropped through its rapid descent. At the last moment it lifted its nose, lowered its tricycle landing gear and streaked to a spectacular 200-m.p.h. landing on the flatbed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. By successfully executing its unusual 217-second flight, the M2-F2 pointed...
...giant spacecraft was sent aloft to conduct only one experiment. And after only four orbits, it disintegrated in flight. For all the brevity of its mission, though, the flight of the 29-ton SIV B vehicle last week was singularly important. It gave anxious earthbound scientists their first close look at the behavior of liquid hydrogen in space...
...venerable, 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth has been renovated at a cost of $4,200,000. Cunard is building an $80 million, 58,000-ton ship, known as the Q4. The Q4 is being built as a cruising hotel: instead of being segregated into classes, passengers will have the run of the ship, but will have the choice of different cabins and restau rants at different price ranges...
With sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...