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...earth by the Viking orbiter. Slowed by a parachute, the lander will spread its three spidery legs and will be braked by retrorockets for what is hoped will be a gentle setdown near the mouth of a 2,500-mile-long canyon, perhaps the site of a former drainage basin. (Viking II's lander is targeted for an area near the planet's north polar hood, where moisture may still exist.) Instead of jet fuel, which would contaminate Mars with hydrocarbons, the landers' descent rockets are powered by purified hydrazine, a nitrogen-hydrogen compound. This, explains Richard...
Rockefeller's optimism about the future of America seems undimmed. From the back seat of his limousine last week he admired anew the classic lines of the Supreme Court building, he pondered the herd of joggers around the Tidal Basin ("Must do this on their lunch hour... Must be good for you"). Being rushed to an appointment for which he was already late, he spotted a street vendor below the Capitol. "Gee," said the Vice President, "I wish I could stop...
...huge staff of 700 people. Plans churned off his drafting tables. Among them: the design of Pakistan's new capital of Islamabad, housing studies for Iraq, Ghana, Brazil and a regional scheme of new towns and transportation corridors in South America's five-nation River Plate Basin. In the U.S., he laid out a 2,500-acre urban-renewal project in Philadelphia. As part of a 1965 projection of greater Detroit's future growth-commissioned by the Detroit Edison Co.-he warned that middle-class families were abandoning the center city "at a rate of two yards...
...hard to find a better stretch of water for the amateur-if not the raw novice. You are never out of sight of land, so navigation is easy. The trade winds blow their dependable 15 knots all day, squalls are brief, and the yacht bowls along through a vast basin of sea, rimmed by a half-circle of blue mountain peaks that runs south to Grenada 60 miles away. Braced against the wheel, refreshed with iced milk punch (embellished on the label with a crude drawing of a hairy fist), and watching the flying fish skitter like fusiform silver bugs...
...major war, one which we both win and survive, and the two together are hardly likely. It wasn't a class in the traditional Harvard sense--a class with its roots in the Yard--but only a system of categorizing students. It was more of an intellectual catch basin of all the talent and non-talent that happened to arrive, sometimes in the most preposterous ways, in Cambridge after the war had ended...