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...period of diplomatic quiet had thus settled over the Cuba situation. But upward of 20,000 Soviet troops remain in Cuba. For so long as they do-and for so long as Castro remains in power-Cuba will still be a crisis point...
...story office building for IBM in Seattle, faced with slender, concrete-clad steel ribs that support the structure and give the building a delicate, almost at tenuated upward sweep. The arched colonnade at the bottom daringly omits corner columns. The Outsider. A few years ago. when his income had begun to swell, Yamasaki started looking for a larger house for his family, in either Birmingham or Grosse Pointe. But he soon found that even though he is one of Detroit's most famous citizens, he is also a Nisei and therefore still partly an outsider. His real estate broker...
When the rocket is launched, its engine and the auxiliary fuel will be ignited at the same instant. The trapped combustion gases will produce a pressure of 500 lbs. per sq. in. that will drive the rocket upward with 3,600,000 lbs. of thrust and about 35 Gs of acceleration. It should reach the end of the tube in 1,205 sec. Air pressure will open the doors to let it pass, and it will pop out with the respectable speed of 1,000 m.p.h. Only 2,500 lbs. of its own fuel will have burned, and it will...
...absence of a feudal aristocracy to resent and smash. During the rapid industrialization after the Civil War, for instance, the young could easily see themselves rising from rags to riches in a world that rewarded hard work, not rebellion. Now the "image of youth as an apprenticeship for upward mobility is waning," to be replaced by a self-centered style of behavior that Keniston calls "youth culture." It has many forms-the beatnik, the delinquent, the suburban adolescent-but all have in common a "lack of deep commitment to adult values." including politics...
...week, 14 times a season, and it is often standing room only. Last year the National Football League filled 76% of the seats in its stadiums (v. big-league baseball's 34%), and this year the N.F.L. sold half its seats before the first whistle blew. The income: upward of $20 million...