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...shot upward at 35 degrees, its throttle only open to 75% of full power. Walker cut the engine after 93 sec., but already he was above 100,000 ft. and going 2,756 miles an hour. Coasting higher, he tested eight small rockets in the nose and two in each wing-a main objective of the flight. These form a control system that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California...
...high-ranking U.S. military advisers to the Laotians. "Mr. President," said Felt, pointing to pock-marked flip maps, "the rebels are spreading just like measles." Supplied by Soviet airdrops averaging 45 tons daily, guided and cadred by the leathery Communist North Vietnamese, the rebels were rapidly escalating upward from a guerrilla band to a well-equipped, highly purposeful army. At the end of the two-hour meeting, Kennedy prepared a ly-point course of action, aimed at propping the flagging morale and military strength of the Laotians. But soon it became clear that they were more interested in festivals than...
Remembering the Carnegie Hall audition, Herbert von Karajan invited her in 1958 to make her European debut with the Vienna State Opera in Aïda. Since that triumphant evening, Leontyne and Von Karajan have enjoyed a kind of mutual-admiration pact. After Vienna, the road went speedily upward. In 1960 she walked through the stage door of La Scala (she had vowed never to enter as a tourist) and made her debut, again in Aïda, without a single stage rehearsal. "After all," she says, "what's the problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd...
After a winter of snow and recession, the weather turned warmer across much of the U.S. last week, bringing customers out and nurturing business hopes that the economy will soon hit the upward trail...
...playful, and sprints away into the upper registers to drift off into what is marked "no tone." At another point a glissando emerges from the rattle motive to dive upon the melody below, swoop up again pursued by a line of single notes, and exhaust itself in a final upward surge...