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...boldly into the midst of fleet and Air Force maneuvers. On one occasion, in a practice session off Long Island, the U.S. nuclear sub George Washington fired a dummy Polaris, and a Navy tug churned over to recover the missile. Before it got there, the Vega steamed over the horizon, headed straight for the floating missile...
...star was in the center of the halo, which appeared to be about ten times the size of the moon. Then the star became elongated, in a dumbbell shape, as if a separation were taking place. Then the missile became a spot of light as it merged with the horizon in the purplish light of the early dawn...
...roof of the monastery is a terrace, seeded with grass and surrounded by a high parapet so that those on the terrace cannot see the ground below but must look out toward the horizon. At first Corbusier planned to make this the cloister, where the monks walk and meditate, but abandoned the idea because "it would be so beautiful that the monks would use it for an escape, which might prove perilous to their religious life." But he urged the Dominicans to "go up there from time to time. Let them allow you to go up as a reward...
Discoverer is an ambitious craft. It car ries in it a complicated guidance system that watches the horizon with infra-red eyes and shoots high-pressure gas through a series of jets to keep the rocket horizontal in respect to the ground below. When a Discoverer - and there have been eleven fired so far - has circled the earth 17 times on a polar orbit, it passes over Kodiak, Alaska, where a radio control station sends an order that sets the guidance system on a new track, tilting it 60° from the horizontal. An electric impulse fires explosive bolts...
...HUXLEY (330 pp.)-Cyril Bibby -Horizon...