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...photographs, long exposed, show nothing but vague mottling. But when a trained observer looks at Mars through a telescope, his eye (which is "faster" than a photographic emulsion) stops the motion of the disk for brief instants at rare intervals. During these enchanted moments, Mars looks like a map covered with lines and dots and patches. The vision vanishes in a flash, long before the observer can note what he is seeing...
...bathythermograph, measures the temperature continuously as it is towed behind the ship. The sharp temperature variation between the Gulf Stream and the surrounding water supplies the club to the Stream, while LORAN (Long Range Radar Navigation) solves the difficult problem of giving the ship's exact location on the map...
...almost all these fields the Institute has been on new ground. It has developed new types of map projections to make the charting of the ocean more accurate; specialists have designed and redesigned the Nansen bottles--metal cases that close automatically at a specified depth trapping a sample of water that is later tested for salinity. Similar experiments with underwater cameras and offshore diving gear have led to a constant revision and improvement of equipment...
Course reduction on Special standing, newly set up to administer the program, will be responsible for keeping the plan centered on individual qualification. Yesterday's proposals were purposely vague; the Committee is given sweeping power to map out details. The first years will necessarily be marked by the slow progress of trial and error. But consideration of the individual should never give way to a set of blanker criteria for advanced placement or course reduction. In every case, final decisions should be made on a personal basis, not on test scores...
...summer of 1952, the Communists completed the first new line on the way to Russia, a 314-mile stretch between Chungking and Chengtu (see map). That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest." The Communists are now at work on at least twelve more strategic railroads, more than 4,000 miles long, which will join Russia's Asian network in at least two places. Among them...