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Quarry on Mars. There are, however, some distinct limitations on the capabilities of Bradley's mechanical man. Beyond about 30,000 miles, admits the imaginative engineer, round-trip time delay in the transmission and receipt of telemetry signals becomes a distinct drawback. "Realtime" human activity is impossible. If a telefactor operating on the surface of Mars were to spot a Martian running by, for example, its TV picture-traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.)-would take about three minutes to reach the headset of its controller when Mars is closest to earth. Even...
...noble effort. I have decided to cancel my planned visit to several of the campuses of the University of California, to which I had been invited to discuss the possibility of joining the faculty. This will at the very least save the University and the State of California one round-trip, cross country plane ticket and very possibly my salary in future years...
...deal is a special 14-to-21-day round-trip fare for groups of ten or more persons who need share no affinity other than a yen to fly to the same vacation spot at about one-half the normal rate. Under the group plan, for example, the New York-London round trip would cost $230 compared with the $399 off-season and the $484.50 summertime economy fares. Unlike Pan Am's $300 excursion fare, which does not apply on weekends or during peak summer weeks, the group fare would be good at all times on all transatlantic...
Agreed to Upgrade. The new deal calls for nonstop, round-trip flights between New York and Moscow, to be flown twice a week in the spring and summer, once a week in fall and winter, by both Pan American and Aeroflot, the U.S.S.R.'s huge government-owned airline. Service is expected to start next spring at about $550 for a roundtrip economy 21-day excursion. Pan Am will probably put Boeing 707s on the route. Aeroflot will most likely use the massive TU-114s that it flew last week in initiating an Aeroflot-Air Canada service between Moscow...
...each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs and bread, swats his share of flies, and sleeps at night in a tent. For these privileges, he paid his own round-trip fare...