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...microwaves will pass through the strongest part of the sun's gravitational field. If Einstein was right, they will be slowed down ever so slightly. Dr. Shapiro figures that during their 25-minute round trip of about 300 million miles, the gravity-hampered waves will lag by two ten-thousandths of a second, making Venus appear about 40 miles farther away than it really...
...This possibility is reflected in his style: calm, facty, occasionally tiresome for its quantity of detail. But it displays a pragmatic realism that is immediately convincing. His meticulous details leave no room for question. His interstate planning commission has been so concretely described (he even mentions the necessary time lag between its beginning surveys and its acting on them), that even as he describes it, it has the feel of bodily existence...
...like a Western executive or politician promising that things were going to get efficient or he would know the reason why, Brezhnev proclaimed his intention "to combat resolutely red tape and window dressing." He called for "fuller use of the material incentive," meaning the profit motive, in "overcoming the lag of agricultural production." In an indirect slap at Chinese collectivization, Brezhnev announced the removal of "unfounded restrictions" on private farming-"the plots of land worked by farmers, factory and office workers"-restrictions that Brezhnev even more than Khrushchev realizes are a drag on Soviet output...
...record in Congress and accused his opponent of distorting it for votes. He has raced up and down the state in both a helicopter and a "Hugh Scott Bandwagon," with a large and vigorous campaign staff whose average age is about 30. Despite a lag in contributions to the state Republican Committee this year, Scott's campaign is expected to be the most expensive in the state party's history. He has, for example, conducted live telethon question-and-answer sessions in every major city...
Scott's polls now give him a 57-43 lead over Miss Blatt, and she has been slipping in normally Democratic strongholds in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. One explanation for her lag has been the widespread defections from the ticket among Negroes, Jews, and especially Italians. Still bitter over a series of questions Clark addressed to Musmanno about his background during the primary the Italians shout agreement with Scott's charge of "bigotry," in the Blatt campaign. (She records that it is "bigotry" to charge this...