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...will have its own rocket engines. By firing those engines briefly, the crew will be able to put their ship into an elliptical orbit that will dip to within ten miles of the moon's airless surface. As they swoop through perigee, the men in the bug will study the barren geography below, trying to recognize places that they have seen on maps and photographs. They will be able to correct their orbit as they climb back to apogee...
...York Stock Exchange analysis of just who did the damage on Blue Monday. Contrary to Wall Street rumors of heavy dumping by European interests, it was primarily selling by small investors that greased the skids on May 28 and the morning of May 29. Last week's dip was also apparently the doing of relatively small investors who, desperate to get out, were belatedly trying to follow the market adage that advises selling on the rallies. Whenever the market opened with a little rally, it was quickly smothered in sell orders...
...Chrysler's finny "Forward Look" cars. G.M. rushed into a crash restyling program, came up with spangled 1959 models that, by G.M. standards, sold poorly. Even more serious were the design troubles of the Buick division in the late 1950s. Sales plummeted, and Buick's dip was not corrected until the System rushed in to provide Buick with new management and new engineers. But the System's response, if belated, was highly successful. Last year's Buicks were conceded even by rival automakers to be the best-engineered cars out of Detroit...
...next question was what would happen to the prices of Du Pont and G.M. stock once the great unloading began. The outlook: because both companies have such strong sales and earnings records, Wall Street does not expect either stock to fall far, but G.M. stock is likely to dip a few points during periods when large blocks of Du Pont's old holdings flood the market...
...American taxpayers ought not to mistrust his country's use of Alliance funds. Since Presidents do not "dip into public funds" and a critical free press is always active, the U.S. has no cause for worry about Brazilian expenditure of light capital abroad. (Kubitschek did not comment on Brazil's current inflation...