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...father of the bride is President of the U.S., the Nixon-Cox nuptials would attract little more public attention than, perhaps, a few paragraphs in the Sunday New York Times, Eastern society's county clerk. But a White House wedding, whoever the incumbent or the bride, has a certain nimbus of history about it. Tricia's will be the fourth presidential wedding in five years, counting Julie Nixon's marriage to David Eisenhower when her father was President-elect; yet repetition has not much dimmed the novelty. Enough atavistic American love of royalty and appetite for pageant remain, along with...
...they were sent to fight, and it eventually slipped out from under their combat boots. They were trained to work in small teams, to meet the guerrilla enemy one-to-one in any remote paddy or jungle where he could be found. As the war has turned, the nimbus of heroism dissolved. At the beginning of the year, the Green Berets turned over their last camps to the South Vietnamese troops. Last week, the Army announced that as an official unit the Green Berets have ceased to function in Viet...
...Force satellite had not flopped into place. When telemetry failed to confirm that a boom on a gravity gradient satellite had extended, RSA recognized a change in the radar pattern that proved the boom had stretched into place. A study of the radar echoes reflected from the first Nimbus weather satellite provided tumble and spin data that were unavailable from telemetry...
...advantage. He has air-conditioned many of his edifices, and such projects as Houston's Astrodome suggest that he will go much farther. His new vehicles, amid the general advance in knowledge of meteorology, are the creations of modern technology, particularly electronic-eyed weather satellites like Tiros and Nimbus and high-speed computers that can digest and interpret weather data...
...atmosphere, and computers have made it possible to handle and evaluate data fast enough to predict weather accurately for days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with...