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...engaged in perhaps the most ambitious exploration of the solar system since the start of the space age. At Cape Canaveral, NASA last week was preparing for the launch of the Skylab 3 mission, which may become the longest manned space flight. An unmanned U.S. craft, Pioneer 10, is closing in on Jupiter after a voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus and later will provide the first closeup view of Mercury-man's first two-planet survey...
...what may seem to some to be a dangerously suggestive circulation-promotion gimmick, Forbes magazine President Malcolm Forbes, 54, has taken to the skies in a hot-air balloon. Determined to become the first person to cross the U.S. in a hot-air craft, Forbes took off from Coos Bay, Ore., on Oct. 4. Last week he set down on a farm near Esbon, Kans., the geographical center of the country, which he figures to be about 20 ballooning days from the New Jersey coast. Aeronaut Forbes is not drifting East on a wing and a prayer, however. His entourage...
...object is to study the possibilities of decentralized, small scale (knowledge intensive rather than capital or labor intensive) technology in a community setting. Also, to establish a communications system regarding technics and technology inside the neighborhood, between neighborhoods and 'craft guilds,' to inventory the skills and tools of the neighborhood, and to initiate local projects...
Women have shown some interest in inside-the-plant men's jobs, such as that of a "frameman," who connects wires in a central office. During the second quarter, women filled 890, or 63%, of the semiskilled "inside" craft jobs that opened up. But surprisingly few women are applying for "outside" men's jobs, such as lineman or installer-even though they pay more than most women's jobs. (In Columbia, S.C., for example, repairmen make as much as $124 a week, v. $101.50 a week for an information operator.) Only 389 women were moved into such...
...learned much of his craft at the Last Chance, and the take from the gate paid part of his tuition. Playing at the club gave him an opportunity to develop an easy stage rapport. "I consider working with audiences an education," he said. "You have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...