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...weighing the pros and cons of a summit conference, the United States must accept the fact that it will realize no success without making considerable sacrifices. As the chances for success grow dimmer, the requisite sacrifices grow greater. If the drift continues, the decision will make itself, and once again this country will have failed to articulate a conscious choice between conflicting alternatives...
Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
Antonia Fleming is beautiful; her husband Conrad is brilliant, but as a schoolmaster once wrote on his report, "bloody-minded." Antonia holds a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of her dim son, Julian, to an even dimmer girl. Her daughter Deirdre, pregnant by one man, is about to marry another. Antonia's husband has moved elsewhere. Antonia is found at her dinner table with her devoted maid clearing away from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation...
...parts of the moon, allowing for the earth's size and distance, and how much of its disk is in sunlight. Figured this way, the earth's albedo is about .40, which means that it reflects four-tenths of the sunlight that falls on it. It is dimmer than cloud-covered Venus (.64) but much brighter than the naked, rocky moon (.073). The brightness varies a good deal with the season, probably because of changes in the amount of cloud-cover. The oceans and surface reflect less light than clouds...
...prospects for an increased midyear vacation seemed somewhat dimmer yesterday when it was learned that all the members of the University hierarchy were not pleased with the Student Council's plan to create the lengthened vacation by reducing the number of school days...