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History has lurched from its orbit; Cassandra herself could not predict events today. Not merely state or moral statutes seem suspended, but the laws of probability and chance. The lethal tendency has been crystallizing for well over a decade. In 1960, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the high-profile white supremacist, had been ad dressing a crowd, surrounded by police. Like the Israeli guards, they searched the audience for danger, looking no doubt for the face of black rage. Verwoerd was shot by a mild white man who slipped through unsuspected. John and Robert Kennedy, whose enemies were supposed...
Scientists in both countries have been urging joint space ventures to save money and pool information. That now becomes a reality as plans go forward for a 1975 rendezvous in orbit of American and Soviet space ships (see story, page 19). The two countries agreed to pool research and resources in the medical and environmental fields. Though the U.S. no doubt has more to offer, Russia has apparently made strides in producing experimental anti-cancer drugs and in coping with urban sprawl. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. also agreed to stop harassing each other's fleets on the high...
Tentatively scheduled for May or June 1975, the mission will begin with the launch of a two-stage Apollo Sat urn rocket from Cape Kennedy into a low (110 nautical miles) orbit above the earth. At a greater tilt to the equator than the orbits used during the U.S. moon shots, it will carry Apollo directly over the Soviets' Tyuratam cosmo drome in central Asia. From there, the Russians will loft a two-man Soyuz spacecraft into a slightly higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise...
...Soviet Union that claims to be embarked upon that purest of Communist crusades, a national war of liberation. On ideological grounds, Hanoi clearly qualifies for an extraordinary amount of comradely assistance, and has received it partly because Russia wants to keep North Viet Nam out of Peking's orbit of influence. But an overly harsh Soviet reaction would imperil its more important prospects of improving relations with the capitalist West-and might lead to a military showdown with the U.S. in a part of the world where geography does not work to Russian advantage...
...four years, Brady fed into a computer mathematical models of a ten-planet solar system, seeking the characteristics of a still undiscovered planet that would cause the irregularities in the comet's orbit. Gradually the description of Planet X emerged: it would be three times as massive as Saturn (second largest of the planets) and nearly 6 billion miles from the sun (more than half again as far as Pluto). It would take 464 years to complete a single trip around the sun, and the plane of its orbit would be tilted an angle of approximately 60° from...