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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other assemblymen, all Liberal Democrats, had followed Koyama into jail, and a storm of public outrage forced the assembly to dissolve itself in shame. Little wonder that a nationwide public opinion poll late last month showed Sato's popularity at an alltime low for a Japanese Premier: 24.4% v. 49.9% when he took office in November...
...powers the second stage of Saturn 1, scheduled for early Apollo flights; two RL-10s combine to form the Centaur stage of the Atlas-Centaur system built to soft-land Surveyor spacecraft on the moon. J-2 forms the second and third stages of the Saturn V designed for Apollo's man-carrying lunar missions. In the near future, violent but versatile liquid hydrogen may become still more familiar as a fuel for supersonic aircraft...
Next May, the companies will begin summer trips across the English Channel with two leased 38-passenger craft, built by Britain's Westland Aircraft. The vessels will cruise at up to 50 knots, make the Ramsgate-to-Calais voyage in 30 minutes (v. 1½ hours for conventional ships). In 1968, the Swedish firms will get even bigger and faster amphibians: 500-passenger craft that will cross the channel in 18 minutes at cruising speeds of 70 knots, can operate year-round even in rough waves...
Competition from Communists. Demand is so brisk that garment makers have trouble getting enough silk for their needs. Because many Thai farmers prefer raising livestock to tending mulberry bushes, and some Buddhists have qualms about killing silkworms, production has held at about 500,000 Ibs. a year (v. 300,000 lbs. in 1939). Manufacturers are trying to persuade farmers to boost output, and have inadvertently sold some other people on the profitable prospects of Thai silk. In the sincerest form of flattery, Communist China has introduced an imitation Thai silk for sale in Hong Kong...
...their recent flirtations with capitalism, the Soviets have begun to cast covetous glances at that quintessential product of the consumer economy: the automobile. Russia has only one car for every 300 people, v. one for every ten in Western Europe and one for every three in the U.S. The Soviets are none too pleased about the disparity, and lately they have become highly interested in the capitalistic theory that big-time car production creates many jobs, which in turn gives people the money to buy cars. Last week the Russians decided to call in some Western automotive technology. In Moscow...