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Delicate Perfection. From start to crash, the flight of Ranger IX was a model of perfection, a triumph of tight coordination between computer-armed men on earth and an incredibly delicate spacecraft, outbound at the end of a far-ranging radio beam. The takeoff from Cape Kennedy developed no trouble at all; the original aim was so good that Ranger IX would have hit the moon without course correction. But the scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are well practiced by now; they intended to do much better than that. When the spacecraft...
Measuring Its Success. The Rosenblatts are Republicans, but editorially the Review lined up with Johnson and Democratic Senator-elect Frank E. Moss in the last election. Once, when a Utah state Republican representative, J. McKinnon Smith, threatened to "investigate as subversive" a model U.N. session conducted by Utah high school students, the Review editorialized: "Should Mr. Smith escape the call to public service at the polls next November, it has been suggested that he would make some corporation a wonderful vice president. These wags define a vice president as a man who goes to work in the morning and finds...
...Houston, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and at 14 other sites from the Canary Islands to the South Indian Ocean, dozens of electronic computers guided, watched, advised and occasionally admonished the two astronauts. In fact, the Space Age's first orbiting digital computer, a hatbox-sized model that can make 7,000 separate calculations a second, went along for the ride in Gemini. No space effort-American or Russian-had ever before made such extensive use of the computer, or depended more...
...government's explanation of why we allowed the gas to be used has been a model of confusion," said Hoffmann. "Saying that 'it is not very effective, so why should anybody complain?" makes me wonder," he continued, "why we should...
Success has brought problems too. Although Chrysler last year paid only $1 a share in dividends on its earnings of $5.46 a share-plowing the balance back into new plants and equipment-the cost of expansion and new model introduction reduced its net working capital from $557 million to $385 million. Townsend has instituted a new company-wide cost-cutting program, but he realizes that economy alone will not suffice. In April Chrysler will float a new stock issue of 5,611,000 shares that should bring in another $308 million to help pay the price of success...