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...Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's pioneering research in rocketry. Recruited into public service on several occasions, Guggenheim served as Ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933, then during World War II went into...
Soon after Caltech astronomers began aiming long-range radar beams at Venus in 1962, they made an unexpected discovery. They found that the earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor spins not only more slowly than the other planets, but also in the opposite direction.*Long puzzled by Venus' eccentric behavior and dissatisfied with previous attempts to explain it, Geophysicist S. Fred Singer has now come forth with an ingenious theory...
...programmed ALgorithmic computer). Amazingly lifelike, HAL speaks with flawless diction, calmly disposes of almost any problem and-when it turns "psychotic"-does the same to most of the human crew. Could Clarke's fantasy also be prophecy? Perhaps. In a chilling augury of the cybernetic future, scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have now created a computer that in some ways approaches HAL's versatility. In at least one vital respect it actually rivals its fictional counterpart: it can diagnose its own flaws and figure out ways to overcome them without any human help...
...When they reached the Mariners some 250 million miles away, the signals were automatically amplified on board and transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week, at a conference on gravity at Caltech, the experimenters reported that they had gathered dramatic new evidence in support of Einstein's 1916 General Theory of Relativity...
Thirty-six of the 44 entries last week completed the trip from M.I.T. to Caltech in Pasadena. The winner: a 1971 Ford Capri burning unleaded gasoline and outfitted with an air-injection afterburner, an exhaust-gas recirculating system, and four catalytic mufflers to clean up exhaust partially before releasing...