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...journey a scanning device will pick up the moon's sunlit face, fix its position, and an artificial brain will figure out what to do next. It can light a small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report the scenery on its unknown far side...
...find their world pretty stark. Seeking inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
...Backward Teachers. Sukarno was born in a small village about 60 miles from the seaport city of Surabaja in 1901, the only son of an impoverished Javanese schoolteacher named Sukemi* and a high-caste Balinese mother, Ida Njoman...
...high school pupils study English, only ten out of 25,000 U.S. high schools offer Russian. Meanwhile, the number of college graduates qualified to teach a foreign language has dropped 30% since 1950. In this field, said Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, "we find ourselves the most backward major nation in the world...
...Boomed the U.A.W. magazine Ammunition in April 1949: As a substitute for straight wage boosts, profit sharing is a "step backward" for workers, adding to the "uncertainty" of their income and forcing them to "pay the cost of a bad decision" by management. Against the menace of profit sharing, the U.A.W. "will continue to fight with everything at hand...