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...General Motors believes that "we would much rather be inscrutable than talk too much." His 9½ hours with Rappleye may set some sort of record for this reticent man. Recently, on one of Donner's inspection trips to G.M.'s overseas empire, he entered the orbit of Australian Artist William Dobell, who painted the cover portrait. The story was written by Everett Martin, 36, who once covered Detroit for the Christian Science Monitor and worked for the Wall Street Journal...
This minor-sounding inaccuracy means that the nearby moon on earth's very doorstep follows an orbit that cannot be measured closer than ¾ mile...
Measuring the distance to Mars or other such far-out planets is far trickier; they are well beyond the useful range of available radar. Astronomers calculate the interplanetary distance by observing the time it takes for Mars to complete one orbit around the sun and comparing that time with the earth's own time on its orbit. Since the distances of the planets from the sun are in proportion to their periods of revolution, the radius of the Martian orbit can thus be measured in terms of the basic "astronomical unit": the average distance of the earth from...
...American League are simply not proceeding in an orderly fashion. The standings turn over every rejuvenated second-division teams the Minnesota Twins are in the back of the pennant race, and the unexpected collapse of the Yankee pitching has kept New York in the League rather than in orbit as everyone forecast...
Always Perfect. Finally Titov had to face up to the official reason for his trip to Washington: his address before COSPAR. Listeners who hoped that they would hear a Glenn-type account of the Russian's 25 hours in orbit were disappointed. Titov's formal, apparently ghostwritten speech described the Vostok II's equipment only in the most general terms. Even when figures were given, they were carefully selected to tell little. Titov revealed, for instance, that his ship was launched by a multistage booster having six liquid-propellant rocket engines with 600,000 kilograms...