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...trouble came in the first stage, a military Thor rocket whose gyroscopic guidance system misfunctioned just enough to make the trajectory 3.5° steeper than it should have been. This steepness reduced the advantage that was obtained from the slingshot effect of the earth's eastward rotation. Air Force experts say that a loss of speed less than 600 m.p.h. was enough to make the probe fall far short of the moon's orbit...
...stakes were a little steep, but could become even steeper. If, at the start of a rubber, one of the players sitting out looked you in the eye and held up one, two or three fingers and you nodded yes, that meant you were playing him on the side for one, two or three extra stakes. You had to be right careful with your fingers and the nods of your head...
ALUMINUM MEN will push for protection against foreign competition, most likely through steeper tariffs, quotas, or export subsidies. Domestic producers complain that U.S. duty on aluminum pig and ingot will drop from 1.3? per Ib. to 1.25? next month, while some foreign countries tax U.S. aluminum...
...carry commuters such as these it costs your railroad $2 for every $1 received." So read the caption under a photograph of anonymous commuters in the New Haven railroad's annual report, which sadly totted up a $2,363,702 deficit in 1957. Last week, reporting an even steeper deficit of $3,018,169 just for January-February, the New Haven unhappily discovered the identity of the costly "commuters" pictured in its annual report. Names: Boston and Maine's President Patrick B. McGinnis-who was dumped as New Haven president after a 1956 commuter revolt against late trains...
...could not pay some $2,000,000 interest charges due May 1 on its 4½% general mortgage bonds. Instead it will defer the payment, write its stockholders an IOU, and hope for better times -while the unpaid interest accumulates, thus making the eventual reckoning just that much steeper...