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...dissipate more energy before it can enter dense low-altitude air without burning up. But it has the advantage of skimming the thin top of the atmosphere instead of plunging into it at a steep angle. Theoretically, it can be made to approach the atmosphere gradually in a gentle spiral. The skin will get hot, but if it is made of heat-resistant metal, it may not soften, and proper insulation may keep the interior cool enough for the animal to survive. The re-entry body of an ICBM can be made solider and stronger than an inhabited satellite...
...both Sputnik I and II are now dead, and the Russians are concentrating on optical observation. The life of Sputnik I, say the Russians, should be about three months; thus the satellite should stay aloft until the new year. Its carrier rocket, which has more air drag, will spiral down and burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle the earth...
Boston, like other metropolitan areas in the United States, is caught in the spiral of an increasing tax rate. City residents move into the suburbs when the tax level becomes high. With income decreased by the exodus to suburbia, the city is forced to raise the level again in order to survive. Boston's taxes this year were $86 per $1000; next year the Municipal Research Bureau fears they will rise...
...final solution, other than surrender to the spiral, must be a sales tax or other system of state-wide income gathering which would shift some of the burden from cities to suburbs. Mayor Hynes is hoping for such legislation and with good cause. Boston has reached the point where pulling itself up by its own bootstraps financially is impossible. Only economizing, industrial growth, and state-wide taxation combined can enable the city to more than hold...
Barchester in Russia. Then comes the switch. Stalin is posthumously purged by Khrushchev & Co., and the spiral of official truth spins into reverse. Simochka, it appears, was right all along. T.T. is back in the center of his absurd universe, and the bribes fly back from the terrified recipients. Thus Novelist Grinioff extracts ribald comedy from his central theme: under tyrannous government, humanity exists in the corruption of its officials. It is human crookedness that can best the inhuman game...