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Moving in the Troops. Into the sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana...
...Vacuum Extinguisher. If the power is to be cut off entirely, it can be done by extinguishing the rocket's fire. This is almost impossible at atmospheric pressure; if the flaming propellant is extinguished, it tends to relight. But in the vacuum of space all that is necessary is to blow off the rocket's nozzle. The vacuum outside strikes into the rocket's heart. The hot combustion gases are sucked away from the unburned fuel so quickly that they do not heat it to the kindling point. The rocket's fire goes out instantly...
...stream of gas followed the ash and spread into the vacuum above the moon's surface. The gas contained carbon molecules of various sorts, and ultraviolet light from the sun made them glow brilliantly, accounting for the bright streak on the spectrogram...
TRANSISTOR PRICE CUTS of 5% to 60% are coming from Philco. Company says its new automated production line is three times faster, making radio transistors competitive with vacuum tubes...
...taker, cultures. He admired the well-bred aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum in which "French intellectuals so often seem to dislike the present, to fear the future and to deny the hereafter. They believe only in disbelieving." As for the prevailing winds of anti-Americanism. Griffith reminds his readers that unfavorable winds have always blown in the faces of the powerful...