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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of Arizona Astronomer Ewen A. Whitaker set about to find out. Examining panoramic photographs taken by the spacecraft's TV camera from just 5 ft. off the ground, he saw a pair of large rocks inside Surveyor's crater. Looking further, he noticed that the rocks and two small craters on the floor of the crater were aligned along an imaginary path pointing directly north. "That's all we had to go on, really," says Whitaker. "We had no way of telling the size of these landmarks or the distance between them...
...first art museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where he found the giving useful, he bought when he found the value worth preserving, and he could afford to disregard the sureties of market taste. He did not feel compelled...
...risen sharply in September, settled back again. The price picture is less clear. The consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 4.8% in October, compared with a 6% rate in September, but a one-month variation of that size is not enough to signal any turn. Economists find it at best a mildly encouraging sign that the rate of price increases is leveling off. Four prominent Manhattan clothing manufacturers joined last week in a startling call for federal wage-price controls. Said Lawrence S. Phillips, president of shirt-making Phillips-Van Heusen: "Unfortunately, all other efforts to halt...
Despite gaps in their statistics, Hollister and Palmer have swept away some economic cobwebs. Their findings add to the growing body of evidence that the nation's biggest economic dilemma is how to mesh full employment with price stability. The U.S. needs to find a more effective way of aiding its poor than simple economic expansion. The poor's gains may be only temporary, and inflation reduces the living standards of the seven-eighths of the population that do not live in poverty...
...really sets Akenfield apart is a sot-in-its-ways, living connection with the rural English past. With vision unblurred by the nostalgia that so often distorts literary renderings of bucolic yesterday, the inhabitants of Akenfield look back to a way of life only just starting to disappear and find it a world well lost. Leonard Thompson, for instance, is 71, a farm laborer from an old family of farm laborers. "Village people in Suffolk in my day," he says, "were worked to death. It literally happened. It is not a figure of speech." The "old ones," he adds, responded...