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Yang, who failed to equal his best performances in any of the 10 events, was fifth with 7650. Russ Hodge and Dick Emberger, the other two Americans, finished ninth and tenth...
...over the Pacific got its thrust by passing vaporized cesium metal through a hot tungsten filter. This action strips electrons from the cesium, speeds the positively charged ions out the rear of the engine. The great advantage of this process is that it requires remarkably little fuel-only one-tenth of that for a conventional chemical rocket. Even the smallest ion engine could keep a satellite on its right course for more than ten years by giving it gradual nudges. On a 300-day trip to Mars, a full-scale ion rocket could push five times as much cargo...
...silly strike to begin with, and it came to a silly ending. Walter Reuther had insisted that all local work issues-some 17,000 of them-would have to be settled before his United Auto Workers could reach a national agreement with General Motors. On the tenth day of the strike and with almost 300,000 men out of work, he changed his mind, decided that a national settlement would help to iron out local differences. After that, it took only eleven hours of negotiation to reach a national pact. That did not immediately end G.M.'s problems. Because...
...College has no intention of changing its policy of keeping off-campus permissions to a minimum, Watson noted. When overcrowding is relieved by the Tenth House he said, the privilege of "living out" will again be reserved for special cases...
This has paid off for Harvard defense: the shutout over Columbia Saturday was the tenth Ivy shutout Harvard has posted since Yovicsin became coach eight years...