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As Apollo began to plunge back toward the earth from its peak altitude, its engine again fired, increasing its speed and ensuring that the craft would plunge into the earth's atmosphere at the 25,000-m.p.h. velocity that will be reached by a returning lunar mission. The maneuver...
The implications of the system were lucidly reflected last month by the peculiar turnabout of Committeeman George F. Olesen. Olesen decided last spring that he wouldn't run for reelection, and the Committee is losing its most colorful though hardly its most progressive members. Olesen is a tall, slightly stooped...
In an announcement following the feat, Tass hinted windily at the purpose of the unmanned docking maneuver. The mission, it said, was a step toward the "creation in orbit of big scientific space stations capable of carrying out complex and multifaceted exploration of outer space and planets." Sir Bernard Lovell...
When he is confronting a Firing Line adversary, Buckley's secret is surprise, plus the ability to maneuver his opponent into vulnerable positions. He often hoists the man with the petard of his own argument. When Yale's Marxist-minded Professor Staughton Lynd told Buckley that he had...
Art of Maneuver. During the years he has edited the Review, Buckley's own views have remained consistently conservative; few people are permitted to influence his thought. One who did was Whittaker Chambers, who added some warmth and humanity to Buckley's bookish conservatism. Chambers, says Buckley, "was...