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...knew that the President's intense words, punctuated with a fist-to-desk bang, were addressed to him. "There is no appeasement in my heart," said Ike. "I just can't believe that [Americans] . . . suspect their Government in general, is apt to fall into that trap...
...13th second of weightlessness." Yeager, writes Major Simons, "got the impression that he was spinning around slowly in no particularly defined direction. After 15 seconds he became lost in space and pulled out [of his flight pattern]. With his returning weight his badly needed orientation was restored too." Mouse Trap. Reviewing one of the basic pieces of no-gravity research, Major Simons analyzes the 1952 test flight of two mice in the test of an Aerobee rocket...
Beacon. In Milwaukee, Salesman Jerome Keller, 41, caught speeding by police radar, drove his car to the edge of the trap, waved down approaching speeders until the frustrated cops packed up their equipment and went elsewhere...
...have never professed a talent for weather ciphering, yet it is currently engaged in an experiment that must be scientific, or at least controlled. The warm air brings both insects and open windows, and the combined disaster is easily predicted. Our theory is that the University is waiting to trap the bugs inside the rooms yet unscreened...
...times the fog closed in or a booby trap exploded. With an election approaching in Great Britain, the Conservative Party adopted a campaign tone that sounded as though it would give the Communists everything they wanted in the Far East. In Viet Nam the instability of the new U.S.-supported government and the resulting civil strife was a critical problem (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the Formosa Strait there lay the danger of possibly blundering onto the low road of appeasement...