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...world's end but the beginning of the future is mirrored here, for rising in that ancient, sandy patch is an orchestration of new sounds hammered out by an instrumentation unknown anywhere else in the free world. The solo tone of an old-fashioned foghorn is overcome by the shriek of liquid oxygen as it pours under high pressure through valves and pipes. Clanging chords of hammer on steel, the humming sostenuto of machinery, the blip-blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced...
...small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report the scenery on its unknown far side...
Person or Persons. Satisfied that the oil slick was not rebel sabotage, the authorities placed all the blame for the accident on Driver Cifuentes, who was barely alive in a hospital. He was charged with manslaughter. Criminal charges were also filed against the "person or persons unknown" who kidnaped Fangio. No one found it worthwhile to criticize the "person or persons who" permitted the crowd to line the trackside, i.e., the National Sports Commission, headed by Brigadier General Roberto Fernandez Miranda, who is President Batista's brother...
...Fuchs and eleven men driving Sno-Cats and Weasels left Shackleton Station on the Weddell Sea south of South America. The 900-mile trip through unknown territory to the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole was a stubborn battle against blizzards and crevasses. Fuchs reached the Pole three weeks late, got a solemn warning from New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who had come up from Scott Station after laying down supply depots. Hillary warned that the season was already too late, and that Fuchs had better fly out while flying was possible...
...priceless-to-science" body of Laika, the Russian dog still orbiting in Sputnik II, rival spaceships battled grimly last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...