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Cigar-Sized Jets. The first of seven unmanned Surveyors that Hughes Aircraft built at a cost of $420 million will make a soft landing on the moon early next year, bite into the moon's crust to determine whether it is soft or hard, then use a long-legged TV camera to show observers on earth how deeply it has sunk. After Surveyor reports, Grumman Aircraft's buglike Lunar Excursion Module, for which the company has received a $400 million contract, is expected to ferry two astronauts from the orbiting Apollo capsule for the U.S.'s first...
Congressmen offered the most pungent remarks. Sen. Dirksen said the demonstrations were "enough to make any person loyal to this country weep." Mississippi's Sen. Stennis urged the administration to "immediately move to jerk this movement up by the roots and grind it to bite." Sen. Kuchel said students who burned their draft cards were "sowing the seeds of treason...
Then the barristers really began worrying. Suppose Justice Scarman never got back-reserving his decision forever? Under British practice, the huge court costs could well come out of the estate, and with the demise of Justice Scarman, the added bite of a lengthy second trial might well leave the claimants with little or nothing with which to pay their legal fees...
...could build a homeland of their own. For 18 years they have been arming to crush us." The present Pakistani commander, General Mohammed Musa, also took to the radio to praise the courage of his troops. The army had got its teeth in the enemy, said Musa, and should "bite deeper and deeper until he is destroyed. And destroy him you will, God willing...
...year, Belaunde's Amazon fleet has called at 140 jungle settlements, inoculated 16,216 people against smallpox and yellow fever, treated 2,153 for dental problems and another 3,657 for a host of tropical diseases. Among them are okara, a skin disorder that comes from a mosquito bite and permanently disfigures face and body with white and red spots, and uta, a dread parasite that produces strawberry-size warts that, if they burst, can bleed the victim to death...