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Just what the U.S. military would do in space is not entirely clear. Aside from sophisticated surveillance satellites, there seem to be few military space projects that appeal to such tough-minded civilians as Secretary of Defense Mc-Namara. An orbiting atom bomb might scare some people as it swept over their countries; but if it were called down on an enemy city, it would be no more destructive than a single ballistic warhead. It would be vulnerable too, for its orbit could be calculated and small atom-armed rockets could be shot up to wreck it. Orbiting military posts...
...into the shallow-banked turns, the lighter (by 600 Ibs.) Lotus-Fords made the U.S. cars look like dump trucks. After 20 miles, Clark and Gurney were already lapping the slowest Offies. Parnelli Jones gave up the chase with magneto failure on the 43rd lap. U.S.A.C. Sprint Champion Roger Mc-Cluskey rammed into California's Chuck Hulse, and both Offies cracked into the retaining wall at close to 100 m.p.h., although neither driver was hurt. At the end of 50 miles, Clark had a 7-sec. lead on Gurney and a half-lap on the nearest straining Offy...
While William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, talked engagingly about the evolution of stars and the significance of "E equals MC squared bit worked out by Einstein," the visitors sweltered in the near-astronomical temperature that prevailed in the lecture room...
...lavish Los Angeles motel? A used Thunderbird lot? Or Steve Mc Queen's palatial pad? No, it is Beverly Hills High School, a pink stucco hacienda that boasts 1,750 over-achieving students, a producing oil well on the premises, a summer school in France and spotless academic credentials. Gloats one teacher: "It's the nearest thing to a private school that a public school...
...Mackerel Plaza, a pre-Broadway tryout of a new comedy by William Mc-Cleery, is based on Peter De Vries's novel about a widowed clergyman whose plans to remarry are frustrated by a campaign to name the town square after his first wife. Hal (Mark Twain) Holbrook stars. Cyril Ritchard directs. Westport. Conn.; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Louisville...