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Find the Moon. Next day another series of commands streamed out across space. C.C. & S. listened, acknowledged and memorized. When the "execute" command came, Ranger turned the lens of its TV camera toward the approaching moon. The lid that protected the lens from micrometeorites was swung away; the camera was turned on and given 30 minutes to warm up. At another memorized command from C.C. & S., it started shooting video pictures of the moon about 30,000 miles away. At this point Ranger III made its first error: it did not hold its dish antenna pointed steadily at the earth...
Despite the hard sell on "convenience," Gardner claims that much of that claim is myth. "The new reclosable baby-food jars have lids that are practically un-openable by the average woman; but an unnoticed blow on the lid may be enough to break up the vacuum and cause food spoilage. Sardine tins, with their enigmatic and often nonexistent keys, offer a real challenge to the housewife's strength, dexterity and perseverance. Vacuum-packed coffee cans with their windup keys are in the same class. In the frozen-food area, the containers are either too hard to open...
Strike off a medal for Chicago Tribune's Maxwell. If a hostess brought the garbage can in the living room and lifted the lid for all to admire and discuss the contents, we would be shocked. So what is so wrong with Host Maxwell's removal of the Garbage Can School of Literature from the Trib's parlor...
...Time). With its suddenly splatted chords, its plocks and thunks and harplike glissandos. Argentine-born Composer Kagel's piece for piano, percussion and magnetic tapes suggests a very drunk fraternity pianist trying to play Stardust in pitch darkness, occasionally mashing his fingers with the piano lid. Weirdly compelling, but likely to make few converts to the electronic school...
...rule. Bullies of both races extorted nickels and dimes from younger students; when arguments started, the races closed ranks. To prevent gang fights, teachers patrolled the lavatories, frisked pupils for razors, switchblades, and beer can openers with honed edges. Though officials hushed up the mess for three years, the lid blew off in 1958, when young Negro toughs beat up two white teachers. White students fled the school, and few dreamed that it would ever be good again. Said one teacher as he quit combustible Central: "They don't pay me enough for that...