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...virtuoso feat that is rapidly becoming standard operating procedure, an Air Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...
...astronauts. Inside the recovered capsule were human bone marrow, blood cells and tissue from the underside of a human eyelid, as well as fungus spores and algae. After analysis, the results will be compared with similar materials which were recovered from Discoverer XVII, when it was snatched in mid-air last month...
...particularly to the U.S. Air Force, which is building a network of underground Atlas and Titan rocket-launching sites in the arid inland wastes of New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms...
Tapped Off. To help solve its water problem, the Air Force has signed up Ionics, Inc., a twelve-year-old Cambridge, Mass, company staffed largely by professorial veterans of M.I.T. and Harvard. Less than two years ago, Ionics unveiled the nation's first municipal water-desalting plant at Coalinga, Calif.; since last June, Ionics has been transforming 250,000 gallons a day of unpotable water into good water for the town of Oxnard. Calif, at a cost of 20? per thousand gallons-half the amount that most U.S. cities pay for their water. About 50 more company plants...
...scent of unity was heavy in the air, and all week long Protestant leaders were lining up behind the Blake-Pike lead. Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord endorsed the general principles of the proposal. Newly elected President Joseph Irwin Miller (see below) told newsmen: "Perhaps it's the most important church meeting of the century...