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...Propulsion Laboratory, where Ranger had been built, began sending new orders that C.C. & S. acknowledged and "memorized." After the command to "execute" went out, Ranger III started a complicated series of maneuvers. Its little gas jets turned it to a new attitude. Then its large midcourse rocket motor burned hydrazine for a specified number of seconds. After the motor shut off, Ranger III locked itself to the sun again and turned its dish antenna toward the earth. Finally it reported, detail by detail, that it had obeyed its orders. But the last-minute midcourse correction was too small. Because...
...level for their shoes and clothing. (Pepsi's Russell says that he once bought a $100 coat simply because a clerk implied that it was too expensive for him.) One Negro market specialist in Philadelphia insists that his people have shifted away from other automobiles to the Ford Motor Co. line because they associate Ford with Ford Foundation philanthropies that have benefited Negroes...
Rockefeller will arrive at Logan airport this afternoon and will motor immediately to President Pusey's house in Cambridge...
...owes its boom to a wide-awake municipal council that is luring industry by offering good facilities, a big labor pool, tax exemptions and political peace. Marking off 2,000 acres of bushland near the Caracas superhighway in 1959, the council first swung a $300,000 deal with Ford Motor Co., which took 104 acres for a new assembly plant. The council used the money plus its own funds to attract more industry by providing electric power, opening streets, digging drainage ditches. It also took pains to see that foreigners were well treated. When Venezuela broke relations with Castro...
Violinist Stern soon developed a scholar's yen for analyzing music and a distaste for studying technique (although an interest in the problems of bowing once led him to study the anatomy of hand and arm and their motor controls). The son of a house painter, Stern made his Manhattan debut at 17 ("I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart"), but had to wait seven more years before he was able to start a successful concert career. Now an almost compulsive concertizer, he is rarely in his Manhattan duplex, averages a brain-fogging 125 concerts and recitals...