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Last week's flight was like the first hesitant step of an infant who will some day grow into a record-breaking runner. Other, more confident steps will follow. Soon the X-15 will be carried aloft with a full 15,000-lb. load of liquid oxygen and liquid ammonia fuel. The emergency fuel-ejecting system and a dozen other complex gadgets will be air-checked. On another flight the X-15, probably with Crossfield at the controls, will be dropped to glide without power to earth. Then will come the first tentative powered flights, using only a fraction...
...exhibit in Sokolniki Park, where the czars once sent their falcons aloft, land equal to two city blocks is being cleared. A restaurant and steam-heated offices have been set up for U.S. officials and engineers who are converging on the site. On its way from Texas to Russia this week is a huge, 200-ft. gold-anodized geodesic dome to crown the exhibition's central building, a 30,000-sq.ft hall that will accommodate 5,000 visitors an hour. Russian name for the U.S. exhibition: Ugolok Ameriki, or "A Corner of America...
...between Communists and their opponents has not been resolved. Matters came to a head in the holy city of Najaf when party militants tried to turn a Soviet embassy official's courtesy call on a Shia Moslem leader into a Communist rally. Outraged, Moslem monks and youths, holding aloft copies of the Koran, fought a pitched battle against them. Scores were hurt...
...foot Atlas, present mainstay of the U.S. missile arsenal, thundered aloft in the morning darkness. It hung in the sky as a white dot of light for more than three minutes before fading...
Under a line of umbrellas held aloft by soldiers in dress blues, the President of the U.S. walked briskly along a red carpet toward the presidential plane Columbine III. Down from the aircraft stepped another President: scholarly Arturo Frondizi, first Argentine chief of state ever to visit the U.S. Ike and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greeted the visitor with warm handshakes, and Dulles' wife Janet smilingly handed Sefiora Elena de Frondizi a bouquet of red roses. Then, in keeping with the printed "Inclement Weather Plan" of the State Department's think-of-everything protocol section, visitors...