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With its facile, steel-tipped aluminum claw, which can be extended to 5 ft., Surveyor dug and photographed more trenches, helping to confirm its earlier finding that the soil at the surface in this area of the Ocean of Storms is dry and granular but has the cohesiveness of wet sand. By measuring the current drawn by the electric motors that operated the claw, JPL scientists determined that the surrounding surface has a bearing strength of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support the Apollo astronauts...
...discoveries, says Biophysicist Gilbert, confirm that cells of E. coli are controlled by gene-repressing agents and effectively demonstrate how simple cell mechanisms work. They may bring closer the day when scientists will be capable of genetic control of human beings, determining their characteristics and correcting metabolic defects by turning the proper genes...
...John M. Harlan, 67, whose sight is failing. Should Johnson be returned to office next year, he could wind up naming six Supreme Court Justices, the third highest presidential record* after Washington's ten and F.D.R.'s nine. Still attuned to senatorial psychology (he voted to confirm all seven nominees considered during his Senate years), L.B.J. knows enough to stay away from any unacceptable nominee. But beyond that, there is an ocean of qualities and qualifications to contemplate. The task is all the more vital since he may well determine the future makeup of the entire court...
...answer by itself did not satisfy Martin. He rejected many a positive-sounding venireman because his manner showed a sign of unsureness that might possibly aid the defense. To confirm it. he asked: "Would you sign a verdict of death?" Faced with that specter of personal responsibility, some veniremen backed down...
...intent to confirm the guilt or establish the innocence of Hiss," writes San Francisco psychoanalysist Meyer Zeligs in the preface to his "analysis" of the Hiss-Chambers case. The disavowal is necessary. Friendship and Fratricide only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime. But Zeligs is less than consistent in his avowed aims: he denies at the outset any desire to prove Hiss's innocence, because he is treading on unsure ground; later the distinction between pschoanalysis and detective-work is ignored and finally abandoned when Zeligs finds certain propositions incompatible with the possibility...