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...wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and romantic." See PEOPLE...
...weather satellite Tiros I (from Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite) went into an almost perfectly circular orbit that will keep its cameras at an efficient picture-taking distance. Its farthermost point of 468 miles from the earth is only 32 miles higher than the low point. The feat of orbital precision, unequaled by either U.S. or Soviet satellites, was accomplished by a special Bell Telephone Laboratories guidance system in the rocket's second stage...
Under the eaves of Central Asia's towering Hindu Kush Mountains lie the farthermost outposts of the British Raj's power in India, in the Northwest Frontier Province. There last week Britain slapped down with overwhelming force a perilous little rebellion, just north of Khyber Pass, in the land of the Upper Mohmands...
...explorer ever before has received such a national tribute from school children as you have enabled our young people to present to Admiral Byrd. . . . His name will ever live as the greatest pioneer navigator of the air, as does that of Magellan as the greatest pioneer navigator of the farthermost seas...
...thru" reader of TIME and after a mind-trip thru your Dec. 8 issue in which I had touched the farthermost parts of the earth-all in my easy chair, I just wondered how far my eyes had traveled...