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...deep sky. Whenever weather permitted, Kaoru sat up most of the night, getting to know the swarming stars as intimately as he knew the streets of his own town. One recent night, as he scanned the dark sky, he watched the constellations rise with familiar timing above the eastern horizon; then he gradually turned his telescope on the constellation Hydra. There, three degrees southwest of star Pi, he caught a glimpse of a faint misty object. He did not remember seeing it before. He focused his telescope with extra care and looked again. The misty object was still there. With...
...miles from the sea; it is an easy if unwilling subject for high-flying U25 slanting their cameras on target from offshore. A single run along its spine rolls out the island on film like a topographical map Supersonic jets scooting in at low titude can roar over the horizon, photograph anything of interest, and be out to sea again in a total of five minutes...
Other businessmen, however, see no dynamic new force on the horizon likely to send the well-fed, well-housed, abundantly equipped U.S. into a new boom. Instead, some fear that the U.S. may have to rely for domestic growth chiefly on its normal population increase?which seems to expand the economy at a disappointingly modest 3% a year. Faced with this prospect, which the economists have dourly christened "high-level stagnation." U.S. businessmen in 1962 increasingly looked abroad to markets where millions for the first time had money to spend for much beyond the bare necessities. ''When the aluminum market...
Suddenly the view has changed. The burgeoning science of radio astronomy has created a second window in the sky. And astronomers anxious to examine the far reaches of the celestial landscape are busily constructing the strange tools of their new trade. Odd shapes bulge above the horizon from Russia to Australia and all across the U.S. Great dishes of steel lacework sweep slowly across the sky; giant troughs rock like cradles; forests of poles and miles of wire stretch out in geometrical patterns. To avoid electrical interference, most of the radio telescopes hide away in mountain-ringed valleys, far from...
...NOTHING (217 pp.)-James Han-ley-Horizon...