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...civilian or group of civilians has the information necessary for the final decision. A staggering array of considerations confronts the President and his advisers. Not the least of course are three problems which do not admit of ready quantification for computer solution: leukemia, monstrous births, and bone cancer. Mr. Rockefeller does not mention these problems. Indeed, one has the feeling that Mr. Rockefeller does not think overmuch about them. Geneticists, after all, do not agree...
...international waters of the Barents Sea, and U.S. airplanes were presumably cruising near the Soviet test range. U.S. submarines were probably watching through periscopes, just as Russian submarines keep track of U.S. rocket shots from Cape Canaveral. Besides such eye and camera witnesses, the U.S. had a varied array of instruments to measure vibrations in the earth, air and ocean. The light given off by the explosion can tell a great deal about the size, height and development of the fireball. Analysis of the radioactive residue caught by filters on high-flying airplanes can reveal the composition of the Russian...
...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
...room is dark, save for the rosy glow from the pilot light. On the broad panel-set roughly equidistant from two woofered and tweetered speaker assemblies in massive cabinets-is an array of switches, dials and knobs. This is not the cockpit of the X-15; it is a modern stereophonic rig. Tuner off. Amplifier on. Selector switch on RIAA. All niters out. Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from...
...Medal at Milan's Triennale and a few months later got the coveted, U.S.-endowed Lunning Prize (it was Frederik Lunning who introduced Georg Jensen to the U.S.). Last week she had two shows running concurrently in the Museums of Fine Arts in Oslo and Copenhagen-a rich array of swirling and sparkling silver lightly sprinkled with semiprecious stones...