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Flying by Wire. To return the capsule to its normal position, Glenn took over the controls himself and activated other jets. For most of the rest of the flight, Glenn had to "fly" the capsule either by hand, or by using a semi-automatic "fly-by-wire" system roughly akin in its operation to the power steering on an automobile. Because of this, Glenn had no time to perform many of the planned exercises and drills to see if he would become space-sick...
...embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are akin to cubist abstraction, but this seems a cold sort of evaluation for a man like Piranesi. He conceived visions of Rome, Horace Walpole said, "beyond what Rome boasted even in the meridian of its splendor. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes...
Many an educator seconds Hero Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye, whose wry view of "Pencey Prep" echoes the language repeatedly used in advertising military academies. For military schools are widely scorned as something akin to reform schools with tuition-handy places for the rich or the divorced to dump incorrigible offspring. "Military schools are a symbol of the abdication of parental responsibility," scoffs one non-military headmaster...
...describes an actual experiment to test this theory. The Mössbauer Effect, discovery of which won German Physicist Rudolph Mössbauer a Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 10), allows gamma rays from certain radioactive isotopes to be used for measurements of extreme precision. Since gamma rays are closely akin to light, Physicist Ward suggests shooting them across an intense light beam and measuring any loss of energy due to photon-photon collisions...
...burden falls on Hong Kong. There, TIME Bureau Chief Stan Karnow presides over a tedious and essential operation akin to wartime intelligence gathering. He and Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village...