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Holbrook's impact on Britain's educational establishment has been heavy. His five anthologies of prose and poetry are used in thousands of state and private schools. Instead of the usual diet of Wordsworth and Silas Marner, the students get kitchen-sink selections from Hemingway on the birth of a baby, D. H. Lawrence on a son's quarrel with his mother, Koestler on a Communist execution, Joyce on a Dublin funeral. Holbrook's first book on education-combining theory, sample student compositions, and Holbrook's interpretations of their efforts-is required reading at most...
...telescopes cannot tell them whether to expect fluffy dust or jagged rocks, smooth plains or pockmarked lava. Hampered by the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere, they can see nothing that is smaller than one mile across. Ranger VII's cameras, during their last few moments before impact on the moon, did at least 1,000 times better than that. They clearly photographed objects only 3 ft. across...
...Impact. It was triumph enough, but the quavering sound continued. So did the voice on the loudspeaker. "All cameras are functioning. Twenty seconds to impact. We are receiving pictures. Ten seconds to impact." At 6:25:49, the quavering signal abruptly stopped. Ranger had vanished in a puff of moon dust, sending pictures faithfully to the very end. With careful understatement, Dr. William H. Pickering, director of J.P.L., told newsmen: "We had our troubles, but it looks now as if this were a textbook operation...
Three-Foot Craters. The last pictures snapped as the spacecraft sped toward the surface showed smaller and smaller craters, some of them sharp-edged pits blasted by the explosive effect of high-velocity meteors, some of them soft-edged secondary craters dug by low-speed debris from bigger impacts. The very last shot was taken when Ranger was about 1,000 ft. above the surface, and before impact the scanning beam had time to transmit only a part of it-an area 60 ft. by 100 ft. There, sharp and clear, were tiny craters no more than 3 ft. across...
...Agency for International Development (AID) have begun pilot programs designed to teach farmers better techniques. These programs have increased production dramatically in several small areas, chiefly through the use of fertilizer, improved seed, pesticides, credit and better implements. But it will be years before such programs can have national impact in a country that doggedly resists change. Meanwhile, Delhi leans heavily on purchases of surplus wheat from the U.S., which under the Public Law 480 program, has averaged 300,000 tons per month since...