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...congratulated the Premier of the Soviet Union on launching a "space vehicle" to Venus (see SCIENCE). Politely, Nikita Khrushchev thanked John Kennedy, and hoped that the two nations could some day explore space together. Nonetheless, the Russians touched off their newest giant skyrocket with a propaganda torch, highlighting the sad fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites (XX and XXI) served to dramatize the U.S. lag in the big boost...
...word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans-born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a cold and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage-and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today...
...meet the demands of clients, contractors and zoning laws. Unsure where his tastes and talents lay, he began by cutting out mobiles, only to find the shapes too "rigid"' for his taste. Like Reg Butler and Geoffrey Clarke, his most notable English contemporaries, Chadwick took to the welding torch...
...mechanics took the diesel off its base and tried to weld the crack. Part way through the job, the welding torch ran out of oxygen. Now Vostok was really in peril. Its only hope was a cylinder of oxygen dropped from an airplane the previous autumn. It had broken loose from its parachute and plunged into deep snow. Efforts to find it were abandoned, but the area where it fell-more than a mile from the station-had been carefully marked...
...fuel, used to test the big ship's generators. (Said Pipe Fitter Solomon Fried: it was like a "carom shot at billiards.") The fuel gushed out over the hangar deck, poured down a bomb elevator well to the deck below. There a spark from a welder's torch set it afire. Lieut. Milano tried to plug the flow, then yelled for workmen to call the Navy Yard fire department. Moments later he peered through a cable hole toward the bomb elevator and "saw orange." He ordered the word passed to all hands to abandon ship...