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...Lunik II undoubtedly blasted a crater, which Kuiper estimates as about 100 ft. in diameter with walls 10 ft. high. If such a crater happened to be in a smooth place, it should be detectable by a powerful telescope, under ideal conditions, as a faint bright spot. If the Lunik crater were inside a big crater or in a jumble of craters, it would probably not be visible...
...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...
...back, and no longer able to throw the long ball, cleft-chinned, curly-haired Quarterback Ronnie ("Golden Boy") Knox, 24, quit the Toronto Argonauts in Canada's rugged Big Four, thereby put an end to one of football's most unfulfilled and peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss off a novel or some poetry...
When the Treasury auctioned off its latest weekly offering of 91-day bills, the interest rate averaged 4.166%. On six-month bills, the rate hit a record high of 4.796%. Meanwhile, the yields on already issued Government bonds soared to new highs. Their prices had dropped so much that nine issues were yielding 5% or better, the fattest yields on Governments since...
While U.S. employment stands at a record high of 67.2 million, there are some areas where unemployment is becoming a permanent problem. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell last week classified 70 such U.S. areas as centers of "chronic labor surplus" because unemployment has been at least 50% higher than the national average over four of the past five years. Of the 3,426,000 workers idle in August, Mitchell estimated that 500,000 were in the 70 most distressed areas. Seventeen of the areas, including Detroit, Providence and Charleston, W.Va., were officially labeled as "chronic" for the first time...