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...crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear light-colored clothing or reflector patches. The Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. began giving away patches and distributed 500,000 in two days. In Fairfax County, Va., guards used highway flares to guide children across streets. Elsewhere, children lit their way to school with flashlights, lanterns and even candles...
...Pioneer Project at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif, where Correspondent John Wilhelm reported on the progress of the first missile ever scheduled to leave the solar system. "During high school years," Wilhelm says, "T used to haul an antique, three-inch brass reflector telescope through the attic to the roof of our St. Petersburg, Fla., home to look at Jupiter and its satellites, rings of Saturn and other celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked one question - about his calculus grades - Wilhelm later became TIME...
Major telescopes, from Mount Palomar's giant 200-in. reflector on down, will follow Kohoutek across the sky. NASA, too, will go all out, sponsoring Operation Kohoutek, a multimillion-dollar effort involving hundreds of scientists and the latest space-age technology...
...which it closely resembles, the remarkable machine is apparently equipped with sophisticated gear to analyze the soil that it picks up. In addition, the robot carries a cosmic-ray counter, a "telescope" that can look for distant X-ray sources in the heavens and a French-built laser reflector, which -like similar reflectors left behind by Apollo-should enable scientists to measure the distance between earth and moon with extreme accuracy...
...facing a constitutional crisis. That branch of Government that most closely represents the people is not yet broken, but it is bent and in danger of snapping. A Congress intended by the framers of the Constitution to be the nation's supreme policy setter, lawmaker and reflector of the collective will has been forfeiting its powers for years. Now a President in the aftermath of a landslide seems intent upon further subordinating it and establishing the White House ever more firmly as the center of federal power...