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...flight. These form a control system that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California in Mexico, noting that the horizon wore a white halo and the sky was "a nice, dark blue...
...lucid, contemporary style of the New English Bible has been praised and picked on by experts (TIME. March 24). It is satirized in the current issue of Horizon, whose managing editor. William Harlan Hale, gives his version of what the forthcoming translation of the Old Testament might do to the 23rd Psalm...
Unlimited Horizon. Detection by infra-red can perform incredible feats. A person can put his hand against a wall for a short time, and an infra-red camera taking a picture of the other side of the wall will later pick out the imprint of the hand. The temperature of the moon can be easily measured. Scientists are experimenting to see if infra-red can detect the presence of cancer by changes in skin temperature. Although infra-red was developed primarily for the military and to guide and track missiles, detect camouflage and take aerial photographs through fog, other uses...
Under battle pressure, the artist often resorted to a sort of sketchbook shorthand-a line or two to fix the horizon ridges, a picket fence of pencil strokes for the men on the line. These were later worked up into more finished sketches, much of the detail supplied from the artist's own pocket reference book. "Infantry, cavalry and artillery soldiers," wrote Harper's Theo Davis, "each had their particular uniform, and besides these, their equipments, such as belts, swords, guns, cartridge boxes, and many other things, were different. As many as ten different saddles were...
...Harvard, the album staff joined the war effort. Reed became a Liberator bomber pilot; on Armistice Day, 1944, his plane was lost in bad weather somewhere over northern Italy. When the Album staff reassembled after the war, the profit motive had lost its allure. Eric Larabee, now editor of Horizon magazine remarked recently, "We suddenly had the impulse that does come to people occasionally to do something useful with our money. The Album wasn't supposed to make a profit in '43, anyway...