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...Last week the U.S. launched a 265-lb., candy-striped medicine ball called Transit IB, forerunner of a series of U.S. Navy satellites that by 1962 will provide more exact navigational guidance for ships and planes (see SCIENCE). And even the long-jinxed Air Force Discoverer program got off a perfect launching of Discoverer XI into polar orbit, though airmen once again failed to recover the data capsule that the satellite ejected...
...March 6 Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Project Transit explains a Navy satellite that is expected to revolutionize navigation...
...they said, the rats came. Assam's bureaucrats dismissed such prophecies as superstition. But the prophecies have come true: thousands of rats have left the jungle, attacked the clearings, and stripped everything bare. Too late, the state government sent in rat poison; what was not "lost in transit" fell into the hands of profiteers. Result: the entire 1959 rice crop was a failure. With granaries fast emptying, four-fifths of the district's 250,000 population were reported on the edge of starvation...
...public hearing centered on House Bill No. 2173, a measure requiring the Metropolitan Transit Authority to sell the yards under limited conditions. The bill sets a minimum price of $2 million for the entire 12-acre property, or $4 per square foot if the land is divided...
...Transit Authority does not move and the University is able to obtain the property, a "platform" might be constructed over the train-storage area and the new Houses built atop this. Reynolds pointed out that no definite plans had been made for the yard area, and that apartment buildings, a large garage, a bank, and offices might be constructed in addition to the Houses...