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...flight through space had done no harm, it reached down and pressed its steel-tipped claw into the moon's surface, leaving a small dent. Opening its claw, it deliberately gouged a small trench near its feet, curiously watching each movement to determine the nature of the lunar soil. Thus last week Surveyor 3 became the second U.S. spacecraft to achieve a successful lunar soft landing. "We've not only placed man's eyes on the moon in the form" of a TV camera," said Project Manager Benjamin Milwitzky, "but now we've also...
...last week did one of Red China's foremost musicians describe the treatment meted out to him by Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. What made the description more remarkable was that it was made on American soil, in Manhattan, by one of the few escapees from Red China to reach the U.S. He is Ma Ssu-tsung, 54, the president of Red China's Central Academy of Music, the vice president of the Union of Chinese Musicians and a deputy to the National People's Congress...
...years of its existence on European soil, no soldier has ever fired a gun in anger under the command of SHAPE-Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe. SHAPE has never even had to put its troops on general alert. Though its enemies have failed to make it retreat, however, an ally has succeeded. Last week, obeying the wishes of Charles de Gaulle, SHAPE officially left France, ending the saga of NATO on French soil. While the flags of NATO's 15-member nations were lowered and a military band played a Napoleonic march, it bade adieu to its sprawling prefabricated...
...frappe; De Gaulle hopes to build three more by 1974. "I am very happy," said the General. "This is a capital day for our defense and for our independence." De Gaulle was saying, in effect, that France can get along very well without either NATO or SHAPE on its soil...
...rigord, where he grows apples and walnuts experimentally to establish new money crops. Floirat has also helped to revive the dying truffle industry. Natives insisted that a virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins for this achievement, Floirat is unmoved by his new distinction. Says he: "Missiles or truffles, the main thing is to go about it scientifically. I wasn't created to lose money...