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...autumn-foliaged town of Tyngsboro, Mass., the U.S. space program last week got a handsome present. It is the world's most sensitive radio antenna, a 120-ft. aluminum dish named Haystack for the New England hill on which it rests. Balanced like spokes on a bicycle wheel, protected from the weather by a golf-ball-looking dome that is the world's largest metal-frame radome, Haystack is now tuned and ready. Its tasks will range from radar tracking of a satellite 20,000 miles in space to holding a two-way radio conversation with a speeding...
Near-Perfect Parabola. Haystack is the property of the Air Force, was designed and built by M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory and North American Aviation Inc. for $15 million. Of the total cost, $5,000,000 went in fees for computers, which designed and redesigned the antenna 42 times. The painstaking expense was worth it, producing an antenna that misses, by the thickness of a paper match, being a perfect parabola. Haystack can resolve objects down to 1/60th of a degree, could zero in on an area of the moon just 225 miles in diameter v. 4,500 miles...
...there, he decided to be a modern painter. But to train his hand to follow his esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted to the real. And what fascinated his eye was everyday America-gas pumps, factories, skyscrapers...
Resigned Ministers. When his first coup against the Kerensky government failed, Lenin told Trotsky: "Now they will shoot us. This is the best time for it." But the government dithered, and by the time it issued an order for his arrest he was hiding in a haystack. Three months later, a second coup succeeded when the Bolsheviks stormed the Czar's Winter Palace, then the seat of the provisional government, and forced Kerensky's ministers to resign at gunpoint...
...hate whites. But he added, "All white people basically think the same. In the South they always show wolf's teeth. In the North they are more foxy but they have the same teeth. Finding a white who sincerely wants integration is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I once found an honest white man and I was willing to go around the block with him--but no farther...