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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars, were rushed in. Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers zoomed within a hundred feet of the ground, buzzing the crowd in an attempt to scatter it. The Africans responded by hurling stones, which rattled harmlessly off the armored cars and into the police compound, stnk-ing three policemen...
Chain Reaction. At i: 20 p.m. the blowup came. When police tried to seize an African at the gate to the compound, there was a scuffle and the crowd advanced toward the fence. Police Commander G. D. Pienaar rapped out an order to his men to load. Within minutes, almost in a chain reaction, the police began firing with revolvers, rifles, Sten guns. A woman shopper patronizing a fruit stand at the edge of the crowd was shot dead. A ten-year-old boy toppled. Crazily, the unarmed crowd stampeded to safety as more shots rang out, leaving behind hundreds...
...last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed in a duralumin basin that will be used again! At all previous imperial births, a tub made specially from fresh cypress wood was used, and it was afterwards buried deeply and secretly in the imperial compound...
Monroney campaigned to reorient MATS not only to stop it from muscling in on the airlines but to improve its damaged military effectiveness. He charged that obsolescence had all but crippled MATS' 455-plane air fleet; two months ago MATS was forced to ground all its Wright Turbo Compound-powered Constellations because of maintenance problems, and it has kept its C124 Globe-masters in service only by cannibalizing disabled ships. MATS is in such sad shape that it will have to charter several dozen commercial aircraft for the airlift of 20,000 soldiers to next month's Army...
Heat to Cure. The plants that make Minuteman boosters are also reflections of solid-fuel simplicity. There is little machine work; most of the engine's comparatively few parts come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours...