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...probably substitute "moon probe" for "interplanetary station" (if U.S. space jargon had any right to set the terms) and "trajectory" for "orbit," but the Russians left no doubt this time about what they hoped their bird would do. "The orbit," they said, "will ensure the passage of the station near the moon and its flight around the moon. The station will pass at 10,000 kilometers (6,200-odd miles) from the moon, and after flying around it, will continue its movement to the vicinity of the earth...
Night & Day. Oscar figures that interesting stripers bite mainly at night near high tide. By day, the sight of seagulls gliding over the water at close to stalling speed told him that schools of feeding fish (silversides, English herring, mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...
...International Monetary Fund, who charged that dollar restrictions are now being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the fund would act on a tougher policy "in the very near future," thus launching a major new step for a freer world trade...
...that rigid discipline, nations have built up flexible disciplines better suited to control the ups and downs of the complex modern world, such as the International Monetary Fund. Opponents of return to the standard of a quarter of a century ago insist that the U.S. is already as near to a gold standard as necessary, since gold still backs up its currency, and its dollar can be converted into gold by foreign governments and central banks...
These advances have come at the expense of fast growth. For the next seven years Nove sees annual rises of 4% in Soviet agriculture, 6% in national income, 7% to 8% in industrial production. Though still impressive, these totals are nowhere near enough to equal the U.S. in gross national product...