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...completed the terminal maneuvers, the astronauts would have needed an actual object to sight. "One of the biggest things we've learned," said Kraft, "is being able to pick a point in space, seek it out and find it. And it appears that we have a really good hack* on what we can do with Gemini 6 in getting the spacecraft in the right position to carry out the terminal phase of rendezvous...
Behind the Masses. In Stalin's time, any party hack might wind up working for a newspaper. Today, journalism departments at 18 universities turn out 950 graduates a year. Tass, the official news agency, exchanges news in New York with A.P. and U.P.I., and from time to time Russian newsmen drop in to observe U.S. wire-service operations. All told, there are some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen...
criminal defendants who cannot afford lawyers? Will it be the courthouse hack who goes through the motions of defending indigents for piddling government fees because he has no other clients? Or will it be the able advocate who makes the U.S. adversary system of justice what it is supposed to be-a truth-seeking contest between equal rivals...
...Walker was more than a metronome; his conducting was sensitive as well as precise. He had an uncanny feel for what was most important in the music. His attention to dynamics was meticulous, and he had the Band produce some fantastic effects by dropping down suddenly where any hack might have let it go blaring...
...framework of archy's little satire is altered by the same slight over-acting of the Boss (Belden Crane Johnson), the journalist who keeps archy supplied with typing paper and apple peelings. He delivers his story not in the style of the unperturbed old hack, calling 'em as he sees 'em, but with dramatic pauses and grimaces of amazement. He most clearly regards a literate cockroach as a big deal; an obvious, flat point of view...