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...fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid-fuel rockets, whose small combustion chambers, fed by flexible pipes, can be mounted on gimbals. When a liquid-fuel rocket takes off, it can switch its gas jet from side to side, correcting any tendency to veer off course. But solid-fuel rockets have no separate combustion chamber, only a nozzle to form the gases into a high-speed jet. Usually the nozzle is an integral part of the rigid cylinder that contains the fuel...
...back into the atmosphere, the pilot must match his speed to the density of the air. As the air grows thicker at lower altitudes, he must slow down to keep the heat of friction from softening his wings. If he comes too close to the danger point, he will veer upward into thinner air to let his plane cool off. Slowed down and cooled off, the X-15 can then glide to the ground, landing on a pair of nosewheels and two skids near the tail...
...innovator also in far more significant works, which he performed in defense of Christianity against ideological dangers. In a long career (one of his first assignments as a young diplomat was to help represent the Vatican at Queen Victoria's funeral) he saw these dangers of the soul veer from Edwardian complacency to existentialist despair. Perhaps his most important efforts were in these areas: ¶ COMMUNISM. When Pius XII was born, the Communists had nowhere won political power; at the time of his death, 52,552,000 Catholics were living in Communist-ruled countries. Again and again, he ringingly...
...written for magazines as dissimilar as The New Yorker and Seventeen, has some difficulty totting up the reasons for Sally's amoral behavior. He gets in a few licks at "progressive" education, cuttingly describes the "intellectual bohemianism" of Sally's environment, and then seems to veer to a primitive belief that women lack souls-or, at any rate, consciences. At summer's end all of the men have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore entertainment. Anyone reading...
...Carl Vinson's invitation) arrived the anti-reorganization opinions of Washington Lawyer H. Struve Hensel, 56, onetime (1944) Navy Department general counsel, onetime (1945-46) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for material procurement, longtime Navy-oriented opponent of military unification. Hensel's point: the new proposals would veer U.S. military organization 180°, from a Joint Chiefs setup geared to planning to an area concerned wholly with command. "The chairman [of the Joint Chiefs would] be the only adequately informed top official; the civilian heads of the military services . . . greatly weakened...