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Viewed with the naked eye or the world's biggest telescope, the moon looks flat. Because of its great distance, the sharpest irregularities on its surface show only because of the shadows that they cast in slanting sunlight. But the moon is more rugged than Afghanistan; when earthly astronauts land there, they will need the best possible contour maps to guide them through the precipitous mountains that hide just over the lunar horizon. Last week NASA's moon pioneers were beginning to plot their first explorations, using an entirely new set of maps made by the Army Corps...
...driving pell-mell along his "Burmese road to Socialism," has nationalized all small businesses, banks and warehouses, denied trading licenses to aliens, and prohibited non-Burmese from taking government jobs. Ne Win's edicts struck particularly hard at the Indians, who have become the nation's sharpest shopkeepers, but have been reluctant to take out Burmese citizenship...
...plenty of support from Southern Governors and Congressmen. Officials in the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare wondered whether they should have jurisdiction in the matter instead of the in dependent FTC - or whether any labeling rule should be enforced at all. Even some of the sharpest critics of the industry questioned the legality and propriety of the order. Surgeon General Luther Terry, whose fact-finding body triggered it all with the report last January on smoking and health, doubted that the FTC had jurisdiction, suggested that the matter be turned over to the Food and Drug...
With McCulloch's firsthand reporting, supported by backgrounding from the rest of the Hong Kong staff and the Washington bureau, the cover story written by Robert Jones and edited by Henry Grunwald throws the sharpest light yet on the plight and possibilities of Laos and the U.S. in the jungle of neutralism...
...sharpest gain in almost a year, U.S. industrial production in April rose a full point, to 129.2% of the 1957-59 base; in all of last year's final six months, it had risen only four-tenths of a point, and this year it had been rising by only half a point or less each month. That was good news, but the Labor Department had some new figures that made it even better. While production was surging ahead, nearly 500,000 new, nonfarm jobs were created in April, far more than is normally expected for the month...