Russians may boost 70000 pound launch capacity within year
A Marshall Space Flight Center expert warns that Soviet boosters could soon reach 70,000 pounds payload to orbit using clusters of large engines. He projects a lunar capability by 1967, based on patterns from 1958 ARPA decisions and four to eight engine configurations.
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Franklin Institute
H.H. Koelle
Future Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPA
Sputnik
Koelle
Vostok Ill
den Jaunen
Moon
Seepage Loss Threatens Western Irrigation Water
Seepage is a major cause of water loss in irri gated areas of the arid West. About 29,000,000 acres in 17 Western states are under irrigation, and water loss in these states is put at 14 billion gallons a day.
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Tempe
Ariz
Water factories may fill future need
Water factories already distill or electrochemically treat salt and brackish water to fresh water. From Freeport Texas to Webster South Dakota inland sites, plants show desalination progress, cost goals, and potential for inland communities as research broadens to power, membranes, and chemical processes.
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Gardner Soule
Elbert Turner
Houston
Freeport
Tex
U.S
Bill Blackwell
Gulf of Mexico
Webster
S.D
Julius Caesar
B.C
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Caesar
Globe
Department of the Interior
Point Loma
San Diego
Calif
Wrightsville Beach
Wilmington
N.C
Roswell
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Long Island
Kuwait
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Westinghouse
Raymond L. Nace
Fireproof Cigaret Demonstrated by Inventors in San Francisco
Mrs Helen Cooper and associate Dorothy ONeill unveiled a new fireproof cigarette in San Francisco. They showed a treated cigarette that sticks to surfaces and extinguishes automatically when burned to butt size, while an untreated cigarette continues to burn.
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Helen Cooper
Dorothy O’neil
San Francisco
Relay satellite to bolster Telstar
STUART H. LOORY reports from Nutley New Jersey that NASA plans a second relay satellite before year end. ITT ground stations show a portable station that assembles in 16 hours and costs about 1 million dollars, enabling rapid deployment for military or developing nations. Relay will beam calls and TV between North America Brazil and Europe, expanding satellite reach.
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Nutley
N. J
HTNS
Telstar
National Aeronautics and Space Administraton
Federal Laboratories
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
American Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Andover
Rio de Janeiro
Rio
Radio Corporation of America
NASA
North America
Europe
Goonhilly Downs
England
Premieur-Badou
France
Brazil
Itelstar
Elmer Sperry inventor of gyro compass and early missiles
Elmer Sperry born 1860 in Cortland New York showed early talent with water wheels electric bells and batteries. He founded Sperry Electric Co and Sperry Electric Railway Co and developed electrochemical processes. He founded Sperry Gyroscope Co in 1910 creating the gyrocompass and stabilizers for ships and aircrafts and built the first pilotless aerial torpedo. He died in 1930.
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Elmer Sperry
Cortland
N. Y
Sperry
Sperry Electric Co
Chicago
Sperry Electric Railway Co
Cortland Normal School
Cornell University
Sperry Gyroscope Co
Isaac Newton
Earliest Americans linked to Asian race
Mexico City experts at the Americanists convention debated whether Americas origins trace to Asia. Chinese influence claimed in Aztec calendar stone and Mayan motifs. others cited Indian and Southeast Asian links. Autonomy supporters warned similarities do not prove common makers and suggested alternative migration theories.
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Mexico City
HMS
Americas
Kirchhoff
India
Robert von Heine-Geldern
Cambodia
Mexico
Southeast Asia
Gordon F. Eknolm
American Museum of Natural History
Ekholm
Pacific
Bering Strait
Alfonso Caso
Mexican Indigenist Institute
Pacific Islands
Case
Solar Scholars Meet to Discuss Lunar Occultations
The Solar Scholars convene in the Ely School community room at 3 p.m. to discuss lunar occultations of stars and planets. The meeting prepares for the Monday evening occultation of Saturn by the Moon.
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Ely School
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General Electric
Atomic Power Equipment Department
San Jose
Consumers Power Company
Big Rock Point
Charlevoix
Mich
Arctic
West Indies
Bogue Electric Manufacturing Company
Matagorda Island
Texas
Struthers Wells Corporation
Warren
Scientific Design Company
New York City
Tonics, Inc
Coalinga
Aqua - Chem, Inc
Waukesha
Wis
Fred A. Loebel
Aqua-Chem
Loebel
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
I. S
Cigaret
By Stuart H. Loory
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Getz
J.C. Wimsaker
Emer Ambrose Sperry
Henry Cavendish
Asia
Alaska
Sibera
Bering Sea
Arctic Ocean
South America
Thor Heyverdahl
Peru
America
Farnborough
Solar Club
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