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When the alltime, all-star baseball team was recently chosen to mark the game's 100th anniversary, the man named history's foremost manager was John Joseph McGraw. His selection was virtually incontestable. More than any other man McGraw transformed baseball from a rustic game of stark individual power into a scrambling contest of split-second team prowess...
...Crawford S. Holling, 38, was once immersed in rather abstract research at the University of British Columbia -mathematical models of the relationships between predators and their prey. "Three years ago, I got stark terrified at what was going on in the world and gave it up." Now he heads the university's interdepartmental studies of land and water use, which involve agriculture, economics, forestry, geography and regional planning. "What got me started on this," says Holling, "was the profound and striking similarities between ecological systems and the activities of man: between predators and land speculators; between animal-population growth...
...soon as we finish these pictures," said Armstrong. Scooping up the soil, he reported: "It's a very soft surface. But here and there, where I probe with the contingency sample collector, I run into very hard surface." Even his geologic descriptions bordered on the rhapsodic "It has a stark beauty all its own. It's like much of the high desert of the United States. It's different, but it's very pretty out here...
...Charles Stark Draper, 67, director of the Instrumentation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To solve the problems of navigation, NASA went straight to the nation's leading authority on inertial guidance. The system devised by Draper for Apollo includes telescopes, a sextant, and a computerized inertial reference "platform" that tells astronauts where they are in space, where they are headed and how fast. But how could they be sure that it would work?, the NASA brass wanted to know. "I told them I'd go along and run it myself," recalls Draper. The on-board navigation...
...Cover: a three-dimensional illustration by Dennis Wheeler. The work is a fig leaf with a zipper, revealing two cast members of Oh! Calcutta!, the latest and most explicit example of theater in the nude. To Wheeler, the three elements-the leaf of Eden, the ubiquitous modern mechanism, the stark young bodies -symbolize the erotic renaissance that is the subject of TIME'S story...