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...could not afford to look at the TV monitor himself. He had to go completely by the clock. At exactly T-minus-zero, Fendell had to begin tilting the camera upward. Thus, by the time his command reached the moon, the camera would-he hoped-follow Falcon's ascent stage until it drifted off the tube. Then, in order to bring it back into sight, Fendell would have to press an-other button precisely two seconds after liftoff, ordering the camera to pull back to a wide-angle view. Noting NASA's -and the public's-keen...
...second ascent took longer. Seventeen months ago she became TIME's business manager, the first woman to hold that post. Her assignment? "It seems very simple," says Mrs. Werner. "If it has anything to do with numbers, I'm involved. But the challenge of the job is in its complications. Journalism is not an orderly private enterprise. It is a blessedly unpredictable undertaking with great responsibility to the public. Arranging the resources to ensure the coverage that the editors want is where a lot of the fun comes...
...presidency but a professor is not surposed to delegate his reading and writing (though, no doubt, some do). He is always fighting time, the great leveller. which will neither be extended nor compressed. Busymess is his true opium. In his Sisyphean labors, his merchandising of words, his endless ascent of unattainable peaks, it seems to me that he has lost touch not only with his students and his fellow men but with his own humanity.Program on Technology and Society
...trials represent an attempt by Soviet officials to stem a rising Jewish nationalism. Israel has not exactly discouraged the nationalistic upsurge, since it looks to Russia, with its 3.5 million mostly skilled and educated Jews, as one of the last remaining sources of a sorely needed aliyah-literally, ascent-or wave of immigrants. The Soviets take the position that none of their citizens may depart, and Jews should be no exception...
...smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with music by Richard Rodgers) failed to pay box-office dividends. The rest of the time has been a steady climb, built on internal verse, infernal verse, trip-hammer rhyme schemes and time schemes, sublime schemes, which began their ascent at about the time South Pacific dominated Broadway...