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...events at home. Many have asked if they should cut their European visits short. The wife of an American business executive, touring the Continent with her teen-age daughter, asked if she could call on TIME'S other bureaus along her route for new developments that might affect her stay...
When all the knobs are set, the operator presses a button. The brain of the computer starts thinking electronically, weighing all the forces that will affect the flight of the missile. When the machinery stops, the whole story of the flight is drawn as a curve on a sheet of paper. If the rocket misbehaved (went out of control, veered sideways, missed the target), the reason for the error can be found and corrected on the next flight...
...time the waves take to make the trip (up to 14 minutes) and the direction in which they are moving on arrival tell scientists the temperature and wind velocity in the zone above 20 miles. Such information is important to meteorology because the winds of the upper atmosphere affect the weather below. It is also important to the designers of long-range military rockets, which spend much of their flying time above 20 miles...
...useful device for adding to one's own status is to cut down the stature of your colleagues . . . and one most effective way to [do this] is to affect shocked surprise when a student cites another instructor. Just raise your eyebrows and say, with the proper emphasis, 'Did Professor Jones say that?' It is more devastating if you do not make any other comment, even if you could think...
This year the race had been shifted from the turbulent Hudson to the placid Ohio, where it was hoped that the dams at Marietta would still the current and the complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect the West's standing. Before last week's race undefeated Washington had been picked as the favorite by nine of the twelve coaches, including Washington's Ulbrickson himself. California was the second choice...