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...latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio signals connected it with the ground. As soon as it left the pad, it was on its own, depending on the guidance of its built-in brain and senses. The test was a first-try marvel: the Atlas hit within two miles of a target 5,000 miles down range...
...more than 180 books, from The Cellular Slime Molds to The American Business Creed, and their interests are as diverse as their origins (from Lone Elm, Kans. to Berlin). They include Younger Poets Donald Hall and John Hollander, Sociologist William Foote Whyte (Street Corner Society), and World Federalist Founder Cord Meyer Jr. The two Pulitzer prizewinners: Poet Richard Wilbur (Poems, 1943-56) and Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (The Age of Jackson...
This time, before Dick Lewis could get a physician, the unexpectant mother was in the third stage of labor, in their bedroom. Lewis had never delivered a baby, but he had trained rescue squads and had often shown a childbirth film. He unwound the cord from the baby's neck, laid out mother and child (a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy) side by side, .then called one of the ambulance units he had trained. An attendant cut the cord...
...life as an aborigine (he is accepted as a Dang) makes considerably more sense to him than his hollow existence as an academician. The savages consider him a master prophet, and he is on the point of believing it himself when, like a paddle ball on a rubber cord, he is snapped back to civilization. The irony is delicately put, and Satirist Elliott leaves no doubt as to which society he is shaving with his razor's edge...
...mother and son never get deeply probed, never really come to grips. Something essential, whether cumulative small detail or a big scene, is missing. A climactic moment, such as the mother's refusing her son's deeply felt anniversary gift, half-sacrifices character to plot. The silver cord does not really bind Inge's story...