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...Pioneer Project at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif, where Correspondent John Wilhelm reported on the progress of the first missile ever scheduled to leave the solar system. "During high school years," Wilhelm says, "T used to haul an antique, three-inch brass reflector telescope through the attic to the roof of our St. Petersburg, Fla., home to look at Jupiter and its satellites, rings of Saturn and other celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked one question - about his calculus grades - Wilhelm later became TIME...
James A. Mackay. 296 pages. Macmillan. $17.50. The rich vagaries of stamp collecting go on and on as prices rise and the hobby cum investment spreads. In 1970, $280,000 was paid for a One-Cent Black on Magenta of British Guiana 1856: "a square inch of paper, with dogeared corners, a smudgy post mark and a badly rubbed surface." Author Mackay is the former keeper of stamps at the British Museum. He has produced a remarkably documented thumbnail history of some 3,000 stamps dating from 1840 to the present, with slightly enlarged color illustrations...
...crime rate that ranks seventh among all cities in the nation. Sidewalks overflow with uncollected litter, and the efforts of conservation-minded groups to bundle newspapers for recycling are thwarted by the erratic "schedule" of trash collection. And a city that boasts more planners and designers per square inch than any other has proven incapable of halting the flight of industry, or even offering events for the nation's Bi-Centennial...
...grand cataclysm. As its nuclear fires begin to burn out, the stellar gases, no longer supported by heat and radiation, begin falling toward the star's core. Moving at tremendous velocities, they crush together, forming a sphere only two or three miles across, so dense that each cubic inch of material weighs trillions of tons. The small sphere has a gravitational field so strong that no radiation -even light-can escape from what has become a totally invisible "black hole...
Such a situation would be quite unusual in Israel's parliamentary democracy. The leader of Likud is Menahem Begin, who served as commander of the anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun, during the British Mandate over Palestine. Begin is an advocate of annexation of every inch of occupied Arab territory, and it would be interesting to see his response to any American-Soviet peace initiative calling for Israeli withdrawal...