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...visit began awkwardly. Charles de Gaulle, President of France, seemed nervous, almost defensive, when he stepped off the train in London's Victoria Station to be greeted by Queen Elizabeth. He was 20 years older and 25 pounds heavier than when he had arrived as an exile in 1940. But to many Britons, De Gaulle was still a symbol of icy authoritarianism, a man both proud and touchy who could satisfy his notions of grandeur only by pointlessly exploding A-bombs in the Sahara. As he and the Queen rode to Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, the London...
...mile orbit around the sun: "Everything is fine." Its internal temperature is 68° F., slightly lower than the standard temperature of a U.S. living room. The four paddles that collect solar energy for its radio are colder: 27° F. Eighty-seven slight impacts from , micrometeorites and five heavier ones were registered, but nothing really damaging. Other data will take months to interpret. Eventually they will tell about cosmic rays, magnetic fields and other space conditions between the earth and the orbit of Venus...
...proved to have two virtues that the massive Soviet satellites lack. First, it soared into so high an orbit (apogee 2,500 miles above the earth, perigee 400 miles) that the outermost fringes of the atmosphere exert almost no slowing effect on its motion. It has kept going while heavier competitors sagged into the atmosphere and burned up; it has already circled the earth nearly 8,000 times, may keep up this schedule for 1,000 years...
...growth. It is unlikely to take any big measures to ease the money market, which has already begun to ease on its own; but it can easily bring about a further relaxation by permitting member banks to borrow more. This could lead to a reduction of interest rates, encourage heavier business spending, especially in construction...
...GREATEST MAGAZINES OF OUR DAY. IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE THERE ARE SET AND KNOWN ETHICAL STANDARDS. THE PRESS HAS GREAT WEIGHT AND IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIVES, AND THEREFORE ITS COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS SHOULD BE NOBLER AND PROPORTIONATE TO THE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY IT CARRIES. TIME HAS AN EVEN HEAVIER ONE DUE TO THE POSITION IT OCCUPIES IN WORLD PUBLIC OPINION. IT SHOULD, IN MY VIEW, ABIDE BY THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF ACCURATE, RESPONSIBLE REPORTING. IT SHOULD SET AN EXAMPLE. THIS I SUGGEST BECAUSE I FEEL THAT A MAGAZINE LIKE TIME BELONGS TO ALL ITS READERS IN, THE SAME...