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Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC. (His 1,000th broadcast was what provoked the Guardian's praising with faint damns.) Cooke, 59, takes obvious delight in confounding the usual cliches about the U.S., in praising what is denounced, in minimizing what's exaggerated, in try ing to persuade his audience to give up the "easy joys of righteous indignation."He is a master of the unexpected...
...000th BBC broadcast, celebrated with considerable fanfare both in London and New York, Cooke broke his own rules and devoted his full 15 minutes to Viet Nam. Yet, as he remarked on the air, he would rather discuss the coming of spring or children at play. "Whenever things look the least bit good," he says, "I'd much rather talk about the American phenomenon of summer bachelors than Viet Nam." Because of this attitude, Cooke's critics charge him with reporting only the "smiling face of America," of "fiddling while Rome burns." To which Cooke once replied...
...previous week 542 Americans had died in action, only one short of the record toll set only two weeks before. So far this year, 3,254 Americans have been killed v. 9,353 for all of last year-and, at current casualty rates, this week the 20,000th U.S. serviceman will fall on the battlefields of Viet...
Surveyor's findings are admittedly based on tiny samples. The spacecraft's alpha-particle analyzer covered only two 4-sq.-in. areas and probed them to a depth of only 1/1,000th of an inch. And it is conceivable that the lunar highland regions have a chemical composition different from that in the Sea of Tranquillity, where Surveyor landed. But scientists believe that Surveyor's findings are typical of the makeup of the other lunar seas, or basins...
Designed to test the effects of weightlessness on living organisms, the temperature-controlled Biosatellite was stabilized in orbit to provide less than 1/100,000th of the earth's gravity for its tiny occupants. It also was equipped with a strontium 85 source that irradiated some of the organisms with gamma rays to determine whether the effects of radiation were different under weight less conditions...