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...fragment, now brown and with age, torn and faded places, was begun in 1753, Adams was a sophomore Harvard. For two years made sporadic, usually entries in the book, covered an incredible array of related subjects. In one he notes material covered science lectures. Elsewhere reflects on the state of human and at one point on the possibility of moral- among animal tribes...
Even at Washington's John F. Kennedy Playground, which is considered one of the best in the U.S., Lady Allen faulted the elaborate array of model jet planes, trolleys, Coast Guard tugs and fire engines, none of which can be moved. "The successful playground," she argues, "is one in which children can move things around and make them obedient to their own wills...
Revolutionary Radar. Nike-X's brain is a revolutionary, Army-developed multifunction array radar (MAR), which uses lightning-fast electronic switching instead of the conventional radar an tenna to direct its beams, thus can "see" 360° at a glance. The Army now has a prototype MAR installation at White Sands, N. Mex., is building another on Kwajalein Island in the Pacific. MAR can 1) detect incoming missiles hundreds of miles away; 2) determine which of the missiles have warheads and which are decoys; and 3) track the missiles as they streak toward their U.S. targets...
Tipped Showcase. The largest array of exhibits this year-62 planes and scores of components-was displayed by 41 U.S. firms, all of which are fighting to keep their lucrative 70% share of the free world's $2 billion-a-year market in aerospace exports. General Electric unveiled a full-size mock-up of the engine with which it proposes to power an American supersonic transport, even though the U.S. has not formally decided to develop one. Lockheed showed its experimental XH-51 helicopter, the fastest (270 m.p.h.) in the free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter...
While a bewildering array of soldiers and statesmen still strove to sort things out in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE), the two foremost foreign policy spokesmen in the U.S.-President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk-paused to assess the situation...