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The Fort Davis station began its observations in August, 1956. Since that time the observatory has been recording radiation from the sun 10 hours a day, every day of the year, except for the infrequent interruptions due to failures of the equipment. At 7 a.m. the station automatically turns itself...
The rocket pads at Cape Canaveral have been comparatively quiet for months. Only an occasional missile roars aloft, and to jaded Florida bird watchers, the Atlas-Agena that lifted off last week was far from novel. But this time the familiar workhorse carried a brand-new payload: its nose was...
Blocks in the Road. Most Western experts anticipate that East-West trade will continue to grow but not fast. Total U.S. trade with the East is in fact declining, slumped to $200 million last year. The U.S. embargo on trade with Red China discourages most Western allies from courting Peking...
Food, flashlights and tools could be sent down to them. These sustained life-and sanity. But the passage that had been drilled was not nearly wide enough in diameter for a human body, no matter how emaciated, to pass through it. In trying to drill a shaft wide enough, the...
Finally, delicately, near the end of the eleventh day, the drill bit nuzzled through the underground prison's rooftop. Now the diameter of the rescue shaft had to be widened to 18 in. Then on the 14th day, down through that shaft came two pairs of coveralls, to which...