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Over one quarter of the Freshman forced commuters have found dormitory accomodations, Dean von Stade stated yesterday. Out of the total of 106 forced commuters, 27 are in dormitories, 34 in lodgings around the College area, and 45 are living at home...
...letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling . . ."). The slick-paper Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics in Stuttgart...
...named B. Spencer ("Billy") Isbell decided he could raise some cash for the local Rocket City Astronomical Association, Inc., by publishing a space magazine for laymen. Editor Isbell, 32, who had no publishing experience brought in ex-Newsman (Montgomery Advertiser) Ralph E. Jennings, 34 sometime ghost writer for Rocketeer von Braun. Working in off-hours, the two started one of the most unscientific countdowns in magazine launching. Isbell and Jennings simply guessed that 50? a copy was a fair price, decided that $200 was plenty high enough for a page...
...congressional hearing, Missile Expert Wernher von Braun, asked about Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who four years ago was labeled a security risk and dropped as a Government consultant, replied: "The circumstances under which he was dismissed hurt the whole scientific community very badly ... I think the British would have knighted...
...said against Christ and me," shouted Alziro Zarur on the air in Rio de Janeiro. For all the bad things a lot of people are saying about Zarur, the plump, balding, 43-year-old writer is running the fastest-growing new religious movement in Brazil. Its name is Boa Von-tade (Good Will), but it might as well be Bonanza. With the cruzeiros rolling in, the movement owns a Rio de Janeiro radio station, two magazines (total circ. 200,000), choice Rio real estate, and claim's more than a quarter million followers...