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...week was seared with rockets. The U.S. communications satellite, Echo II, expanded its aluminum skin and made ready to reflect messages from space. Saturn 5, boosting the biggest payload man has ever lofted into orbit, shot into the vast blue reaches above Cape Kennedy. Soon after, Ranger 6 arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly...
Again and again Aiken's novels echo the idea that love means pain, although his heroes still invariably heed the call of the Sirens. Why the love-pain equation? Like the lovers in Blue Voyage, we are unable to communicate, and must therefore bottle up our desires and the things we want to say. But what if the perfect communication were achieved? "What if it were at last possible to talk of everything with a woman? To keep no secrets, no dark recesses of the mind, no dolors and dunks, which could not be shared with her? But then...
...Echo II is expected to stay up for three years, will be clearly visible above the horizon at sunset and sunrise. A passive communications satellite that will bounce radio signals off its taut surface, Echo II also reflects the first practical attempt at U.S.-Soviet space cooperation. By agreement with Moscow, facsimile picture, voice and code signals will be transmitted soon by means of huge antennas at observatories in Russia and England...
...trouble in Panama has repercussions that echo all the way to the Livermore, Calif., laboratories of Project Ploughshare, where the AEC is investigating the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Ploughshare scientists are bringing their calculations to a high polish, for if a new Isthmian canal is to be dug, nuclear explosives may be used. And Ploughshare men are sure that they can blast a wide sea-level canal in a couple of years at a fraction of the cost of conventional digging...
...star. It dwells on the collected anecdotes and cocktail parties of the lecture tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would...