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...swimming pool and a sandbox. But it has almost everything else, including five lavatories, two galleys, three sitting rooms, and $2,000,000 worth of secret electronic gear that provides, among other things, instant communication with the White House. It can go 7,000 miles without refueling, stay aloft 13¼ hours, average 550 to 600 m.p.h...
...built has been abandoned; U.S. authorities no longer feel driven to solve the enormously difficult design problems of a nuclear-powered aircraft. But the Pratt & Whitney engineers who sweated over the complexities of the atom plane's engine are still determined to get some sort of nuclear reactor aloft. They are working for AEC now, and last week the commission allowed them to give a glimpse of their top-secret labs...
...studiers' problems have grown more complex. When the National Science Foundation set out to build the world's largest solar scope six years ago, a massive investigation had to be made merely to find where to place the monster. Astronomers roamed the U.S.; rockets were fired aloft to check on atmospheric conditions; scores of aerial maps were made before the NSF settled on 6,875-ft. Kitt Peak in Arizona. The peak's flat top, high in the clear air, is well above hot desert breezes, but not so high that ice will become a problem...
...Nash asks for a show of hands: how many people at least don't want to invade Cuba? Most of the audience seems agreed--except, of course, those freshmen. Telegram blanks are handed round by the Tocsins. The freshmen march outside, their black umbrellas aloft, chanting in unison, "We have secured peace in our time." "Well," says one boy walking home, "it was a choice between this and the Bob Hope Show --and I'm glad I came to this...
...came out, and it was disgusting. I don't feel badly about harpooning someone on this because if they do it to me I'm going to be furious." When Cronkite raised a touchy question about whether the astronauts feel that no new men should be sent aloft until all of the original seven get "a fair share of missions," Schirra had another forthright answer: "I'll never deny that. If I did, I'd be lying-you know...