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...flight puts a strain on geography. Many vertical flights have been made from White Sands, N.Mex., but not even in the thinly inhabited Southwest is there an area where a rocket can be fired for distance. So last week the Air Force made its first horizontal rocket test from Cocoa, Fla. (east of Orlando), firing a two-stage rocket over the empty Atlantic north of the Bahamas...
Real rocket tests, such as last week's at Cocoa (see above) are expensive items in any nation's budget. The missile itself, including development cost, may represent many hundred thousand dollars. To follow its flight requires a network of observation posts with radar, telescopes, radio locators and other intricate instruments specially designed for the purpose...
...which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison is the 'Merrie England...
Processing consists of heating the manure up to 1900 degrees, mixing it with cocoa beaus and peanut shells, and grinding, 25 tons of bovnug are produced every day. Princeton men think that...
...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...