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...this point seems to be a space version of a 'burial at sea.' After suitable rites, the dead astronaut would be simply pushed out into space. And there, because of the vacuum and the intensity of the sun's heat, his body would eventually evaporate and vanish into the vastness of space...
...production again. Despite a 37% drop in sales to the U.S. last year, British automakers hope to regain a fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe sedan designed especially...
...plans for plant and equipment spending showed that in the year's second half they intend to reverse the gradual decline in spending. For the year as a whole, they will cut their expenditures only a moderate 3%. If business picks up, even that small cut could quickly vanish. As it is, manufacturers surveyed by the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission predicted that their 1961 sales would rise...
...came close to illustration, it was because they had a story to tell. As progress chuffed and shrieked across the West over newly laid railroad tracks, Remington explained what that story was. "I knew," he wrote, "that the wild riders and vacant land were about to vanish forever, and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. I began to try to record some facts around me, and the more I looked, the more the panorama unfolded...
...Castro himself once did, the Escambray rebels generally rely on standard guerrilla tactics: present no solid front, hit where unexpected, and vanish. In response, Castro has resorted to tactics very like those Batista used against him. Castro gradually pulled his regular troops out of the Escambray because they can't be relied on to fight old comrades-in-arms. In place of the regulars, Castro sent in militiamen, who cautiously refrained from going into the brush, and at night retired from the hills for safety...