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...cities beggars grovel in the streets. Last week in the U.N. budget committee, Russia proposed that the U.S. share of the U.N. expenses be raised from 37% to 50% ($23,284,150), on the ground that the U.S. economy is able to carry the extra load better than any other country's. Russia's share...
...star of the show was the Vickers Valiant, a four-jet, swept-wing bomber, which British airmen are already calling "the aircraft of the year." It has more range, speed, altitude and load-carrying capacity than the Canberra, which holds the speed record over the Atlantic and is being mass-produced for the U.S. Air Force by Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore...
...Mars & Back. Von Braun's Marsprojekt would be a very considerable effort. Forty-six three-stage rocket ships, weighing 6,400 tons each* at takeoff, would have to make 950 trips above the earth's atmosphere, carrying cargo (39.4 tons of pay load per trip) and fuel to build and stock the satellite filling station. On this base, ten orbit-to-orbit spaceships would be assembled. Taking off for Mars, they would establish a second filling station in an orbit around that planet. Enough fuel and supplies would remain to set 50 men down on Mars in three...
...this care in admissions leads to a school whose students suffer remarkable few academic failures, considering the heavy work load. Moreover, the "gregarious, extovert" label pinned on Business School men shows itself in the lively activity program maintained by the Student Association. Attracting University-wide attention have been the fall football intramurals, which some sections have taken so seriously as to organize two-platoon systems...
...pressure is greater on the first year man at Harvard than it is on his brother at Yale. He usually must carry a heavier work load; putting in over twenty hours a week outside of class, as compared to just over ten hours for the Yale student. And, of course, there, is always the strong possibility of flunking out at Harvard, while Yale seldom fails a student...