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...Said Curtis President Robert MacNeal: "The change in policy is deemed to be appropriate at this time and compatible with the viewpoint of the vast majority of [the Post's'] present and potential audience." Annual revenue increase for the magazine could be in the millions, a big boost for a magazine whose income from advertising during the first half of this year was down $3,570,337 (to $43,264,312) from the same period...
...roar farther and faster, rockets need a super-fuel with more bounce to the ounce. Most such concoctions are too volatile to handle. Last week Bell Aircraft announced success in taming one of them-liquid fluorine-which might boost rocket-payloads 70%. That would be enough to orbit U.S. satellites considerably bigger than Russia's very heavy Sputnik...
...rocket fuel combines a chemical that oxidizes and an ingredient that burns. The propulsive energy released is measured as "specific impulse." Present combinations, e.g., liquid oxygen and kerosene, have a specific impulse of about 245 Ibs. Using liquid fluorine as the oxidizer instead of liquid oxygen would boost specific impulse to between...
...read with utter horror in TIME, Aug. 11 of the inhumane slaughtering of animals. I can't understand how such horrible methods could have gone on so long in a supposedly civilized country. If humane methods will boost meat prices, let them...
...demonstrated the kind of fiscal responsibility that Economist Reierson was talking about. Deciding that it was time once again to lean gently against the economic winds. FRB gave the San Francisco Reserve Bank permission to hike its discount rate from 1¾% to 2%, the first such credit-tightening boost in eight months. The other eleven Federal Reserve banks will probably follow suit soon, thus signaling that 1) the Fed agrees that the recession is over, and 2) it is on guard to make certain that the recovery proceeds in a sound, orderly fashion...