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...machines. British Geneticist J.B.S. Haldane called for certain regressive mutations to enable man to survive in space, including legless astronauts who would take up less room in a space capsule and require less food and oxygen (larger and more powerful spacecraft would seem to be an easier and less monstrous solution). Haldane also suggested apelike men to explore the moon. "A gibbon," he said only half-jokingly, "is better preadapted than a man for life in a low gravitational field...
...carrying the spirit of tolerance to intransigent extremes. Toleration of opinion is a duty, even when the opinions seem profoundly wrong. It also behooves us to be tolerant of misbehavior, since we all engage in it rather often. But there are degrees. We are faced with a monstrous social evil, and with a man who is among its key architects and administrators. We are faced not with a single wrong action, which a man might regret without being willing to say so in public, but with sustained and voluntary activity, over a period of years, in a position of leadership...
...pants staccato rhythm. James Goldman's book lacks the dry, winy brilliance called for by Prince's direction, yet still evokes the mood of Proust's closing words: "I would describe men, even at the risk of giving them the appearance of monstrous beings, as occupying in Time a much greater place than that so sparingly conceded to them in Space, a place indeed extended beyond measure, because, like giants plunged in the years, they touch at once those periods of their lives-separated by so many days-so far apart in Time." Apart from Proust...
...miles of Jupiter, Pioneer F will conduct a total of 13 experiments and radio the results back to mission controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. A complex array of detectors, which poke out of the cone-shaped spacecraft like antennae on a monstrous insect, will measure, among other things, magnetic fields, ultraviolet and infrared radiation, cosmic rays, meteoroid density and the intensity of the solar wind (charged atomic particles streaming from...
...ENGLAND they call it. "supplementary benefit." America calls it welfare and Nixon has characterized it "a monstrous, consuming outrage." But what's in a name? As long as the voters believed in welfare and most of the needy stayed off the rolls, criticism of the system was minimal despite reports that it wasn't working. The concept of welfare, though, has always run against America's well-ingrained work ethic...