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...Vanguard satellite (TIME, Dec. 16) falls into the category of battles that were lost for want of a nail. Studying films and performance data, technicians have traced Vanguard's failure to a leak sprung in a fuel line. The leak produced two quick effects: 1) because an improper ratio of fuel was being pumped into the thrust chamber, the missile lost thrust; 2) escaping fuel spurting against the hot pump assembly caught fire, turned Vanguard into a grounded inferno when the fire backlashed to the fuel tanks. Total cost of the malfunctioning part that punctured U.S. prestige and delayed...
...Recoveries. Kuru may strike as early as the age of four. Through childhood it strikes twice as many girls as boys. Among adults the sex ratio rockets to 14 to one: 56% of all patients are grown women. First sign of kuru is a slight trembling of the arms and legs on exertion. At this stage it subsides with rest. But a month to three months later the victim's head shakes, he begins to sway and stumble, and needs a walking stick for support. Within two months more, he is unable to stand or walk...
...virtue of dignity. The Louisville Courier-Journal gushed that Elizabeth looked like an English rose "with a little of the morning dew still on the petals." Perhaps the deepest curtsy came from the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose greeting used "Her Majesty" seven times and "the Queen" only twice−a ratio of respect unmatched by the London Times itself. Long Island's Newsday burbled: WE LOVE THE QUEEN...
...slight. During the first fifty years of this century, in England and Wales, almost 7,500 murders were known to the police. Yet, because of factors like suicide, non-apprehension, acquittal, insanity, reprieves, etc. only 632 criminals were executed, about one out of twelve. In the U. S. the ratio of homocides to executions is even greater...
...speedier loan consideration, 2) loan approval by their own governments rather than the bank, 3) loans in their own national currencies as well as foreign money, 4) granting of "general" loans, not just specific ones. A more telling complaint was added by Pakistan's M. A. Mozaffar: "The ratio of World Bank loans granted to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and the Middle East declined from 41.9% in 1955-56 to 29.3% in the latest fiscal year...