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...among the youngest, most gifted, and most solidly established of the new novelists. His career so far has been the kind young men dream about; six of his books, including two well-received novels (The Poorhouse Fair, and Rabbit, Run) have been published. A third novel, The Centaur, will be issued later this month; it is a complex attempt to combine as parallel themes reminiscence of small-town boyhood with Greek mythology. There is almost no critic who has not praised Updike's crystalline style, his mastery of the distilled phrase. Yet amid the praise there is a growing...
When we think of a centaur, Follesdal explained, "our act of thinking has a noema, but no object; because of its noema, however, even such an act is directed. What Husserl did was, in a sense, to combine the theory of intentionality with the theory of name meaning-reference...
...Centaur, the nation's first missile to use highenergy, liquid-hydrogen fuel, flunked its first flight test when its Atlas booster shut down seconds after ignition. But by week's end, the trend toward repeated failure was reversed as the skies were peppered with missiles. A second Pershing flew properly. The first International Satellite-a joint effort by the U.S. and Great Britain-was successfully nudged into orbit by a Thor-Delta rocket to gather data on cosmic radiation. A smaller Nike-Cajun was shot 75 miles high in another ionosphere-probing experiment. The Air Force fired...
Britain quickly alerted 7,000 paratroopers, infantrymen and R.A.F. units in Cyprus, Kenya and Bahrein. From Mombasa, Kenya, a strike force of seven warships including the aircraft carrier Centaur with 45 fighter-bombers and helicopters aboard, sailed to join six British vessels already patrolling the Persian Gulf. "Just small-scale precautionary measures," said the Defense Ministry. Added the Foreign Office, confident that the show of force would be effective: "We don't expect any trouble...
...Avco washed out of the hotly competitive appliance business and swung heavily into defense work, it vowed to pass up flashy Government contracts that offered more publicity value than profit potential. Avco figured that it lacked the know-how in liquid rocket engines to bid for the upper-stage Centaur booster, lacked the size to manage the complex Dyna-Soar space vehide. Instead, it bid successfully for products that Avco itself developed: gas-turbine engines for helicopters, height-finding radar, missile re-entry systems. Avco currently wrings 65% of its sales out of products that came off its own drawing...