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...Image Lag." A.M.C.'s difficulties are widely blamed on a lack of vision in the past. Five years ago, when recession-affected Americans turned to compact cars, the company's Rambler was first and foremost in the domestic compact market, almost became king of the road. Just to meet the demand and get the car into customers' hands, A.M.C. President George Romney-now Governor of Michigan-permitted archaic and costly work practices to continue. A.M.C. executives now complain, with hindsight, that Romney paid lavish dividends to stockholders and perhaps too conscientiously used earnings to take the company...
...solve the incredibly complex equations of orbital mathematics. Human skill and human courage had added the vital ingredients that made the computations correct. Now the dream of docking two spacecraft while they whirl through their curving courses promised to be no more of a problem than parking a compact car; rescue of astronauts adrift in space became a definite possibility. A manned orbiting laboratory suddenly seemed more than an imaginative scheme; a space station that can be constructed aloft seemed within man's grasp. And the men of Gemini 7 who had blasted off eleven days earlier to spend...
Some things about Cape Kennedy surprise a veteran television-watcher of rocket launchings. I had envisioned a compact base, with launching pads and rockets bunched closely together. But the Cape is huge, much of its acreage still covered by scrubby palms. Occasional rattlesnakes are still found there, and when a hurricane drives them inland, the snakes become a serious nuisance. The pads are spread out, miles from each other, connected by a series of highways with names like "Solid Motor Road," "Central Control Road," and "ICBM Road...
Obvious Value. The biggest beneficiaries of the sales surge are the makers of jet turbines, which are a compact source for stand-by power, particularly for such large needs as those of cities and airports. Manufacturers have been finding increasing nonaviation uses for jet engines (including shipboard power, heating plants and railroad trains), are eagerly exploiting the power market. The jets' value has become obvious: Holyoke, Mass., switched on its Pratt & Whitney stand-by jet when the blackout hit, two minutes later had full power. Hartford, Conn., also stayed aglow with emergency jet power. A week after the blackout...
...strong sunlight that bathes Italy, the Renaissance masters reveled in huge walls of spectrum-splattered fresco. In darker Northern Europe, the Renaissance first came in the more compact fashion of the graphic arts, in which line dominates color. And no one in the Renaissance drew a finer line than Albrecht Dürer (see color...