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...solid fuel is by no means a proved item. Solid-charge missiles have less thrust than liquid propellants, cannot carry as heavy a warhead per pound of fuel. Critics of solid fuel argue that it requires a canister that can withstand great pressures, that solid fuel blasts off with a jolt that is rough on the missile's complex guidance systems; the Navy insists that it can control the blastoff, but it has not yet tested its technique on the missile. Another key problem: how to shut off the solid-charge propulsion at the precise point needed to drop...
...Queen went on: "We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics so that we can show the world that we're not afraid of the future. . . In the old days the monarch led his soldiers onto the battle field. . . I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else - I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of-nations." She spoke for seven minutes, and her appearance...
...fairly constant at 10 points for 15 minutes of the second half, when the varsity staged a desperate full court press to break up a stall. Bob Repetto hit for seven points in less than two minutes to close the gap to 62-58, but Tufts was able to withstand the pressure and retain its advantage...
...like the Gaither committee, virtually abandoned the blast-shelter idea in favor of fallout shelters. Reason: radioactive fallout, with all its dangers, can be fought; it comes as a delayed reaction of nuclear explosions, produces aftereffects more slowly. Explains a committee member: "A fallout shelter, of course, would not withstand a direct hit, but it could be any one of a number of things-from a rigged-up basement in the ground covered by dirt to the kind of steel-and-concrete thing you could put up in your backyard." Cost for a system of fallout shelters would run upwards...
Dudley threatened several times by penetrating inside Eliot's twenty yard line, but never managed to score. The Elephant defense held firm on their eight to withstand Dudley's deepest effort...