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...high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule. In Cook's sprawling research labs, another team of engineers is working with its big cobalt 60 facility, testing for lubricating oils and ceramics that will withstand the heat and radiation produced by atomic aircraft. One of Cook's biggest jobs is to test missile and other weapon components. Explains one Cook engineer: "If you have two components, each only 90% reliable, your circuit is only 81% reliable. Some missiles have 300,000 parts...
...chasm that split Gamal Abdel Nasser from the West more than two years ago in the Anglo-French invasion of Suez was papered over by money last week. The strongman of the Nile, needing written help to withstand the Communists in the Middle East, got set to make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international...
Consoling as this theory appears, it will not withstand the facts without considerable refinement. Academic study rarely improves scores on IQ tests, syllogistic logic, or any other known measure of effective thinking. Neither does the discipline of studying one field appear to help you enter a new and unrelated field. Historians are no better qualified to draw sensible conclusions about medical evidence than are equally intelligent garage mechanics, and musicians are as baffled as stenographers when confronted with the intricacies of the stock market...
...shifty and sure-handed on offense; blossomed this year on defense, piled up end sweeps, helped his team hold Army's famed halfbacks Anderson and Dawkins to 19 yds. rushing in 14 carries. The pros like him, but feel he must add a good deal of weight to withstand the inevitable pounding a player gets in the big time...
...quarterback bumping into the intended ball-carrier, or else being pulled down because he moved too slowly, by hard-charging Crimson forwards. In addition, Eli passing was never a threat; though this must be blamed less on the quarterbacks and more on their blockers, who simply could not withstand the determined pass-rush of the Harvards...