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...bone-weary scientists had worked all night. But as they walked away from the lab, they seemed curiously reluctant to quit. They loitered in the cool dawn and stared at the eastern horizon. There, the pale glow of Venus marked the morning-as it has done so many times since man learned to recognize Earth's nearest planetary neighbor...
...curriculum at the Naval Academy [Feb. 8]. After almost four years with the Pacific Fleet, I have become acquainted with many officers of civilian-college backgrounds. In this time, it has become evident that the course of instruction at the Naval Academy is lacking in the breadth of its horizon and the depth of its technical preparation...
...faint gleam of hope shines on the varsity basketball team's horizon for the first time in three weeks--it could win a game. When the Crimson travels to Providence tonight, it will find a worthy opponent in the Brown Bears--a team which plays almost as erratically and neptly as the Crimson...
Aside from Boeing, the only U.S. planemaker with a new airliner even faintly on the horizon is Douglas, which would like to build a shortrange, twin-jet DC-9. Douglas has not yet broken even on its long-range DC-8 jet, so far has not a single order for the DC-9, and is not at all sure that it will be able to go ahead with the plane. Two local-service U.S. airlines to which Douglas had hoped to sell DC-9s recently decided instead to buy British Aircraft Corp.'s new One-Eleven, the only short...
...form, despite Percy's suspicion that "there is a disintegration of the fabric of the modern world which is so far advanced that the conventional novel no longer makes sense." But his vision of rotting fabric broods over the novel. The hero, a likable, intelligent stockbroker surrounded from horizon to horizon by the quietest of despairs, expresses his predicament with irony: "It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt on a neat styrene card with one's name on it certifying, so to speak...