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...Fourth Game matched Dodger Carl Erskine against Yankee Tom Sturdivant-Erskine the canny righthander who set a series strikeout record (14) against the Yankees in 1953, Sturdivant the lanky in-and-outer who was almost released by the Yankees last spring and who was blasted out of the second game. For six innings Sturdivant let the leadoff Dodger get to first base, and for six innings he shut the door on all but one run. The Yanks chipped away at Erskine for three runs in four innings, and Erskine departed. Home runs by Mantle and Bauer pushed the Yankee total...
...Force's top test assignments: a chance to pilot the world's fastest (an estimated 2,000 m.p.h.), highest-flying (almost 24 miles) airplane, the Bell X-2-and join the tiny corps of pilots whose job it is to explore the deep purple edges of outer space...
...periodic radio signals, he thinks, come from "sources" that are clustered predominantly on one side of the planet. The radio waves from the sources are normally reflected back to the planet's surface by ionized layers in the Venusian atmosphere. The only waves that reach outer space are those that travel vertically and are therefore reflected less strongly. In effect, a broad beam of radio waves sweeps around Venus as the planet revolves. Only when the beam points toward the earth is it detected by Dr. Kraus. So the time between the peaks of energy gives Venus' period...
...stuff that Bill or Joe ... will come along and say presently." Snarled Wolfe: "Just remember that although Madame Bovary in your opinion may be a great book, Tristam Shandy is indubitably a great book because it boils and pours ... A great writer is not only a leaver-outer but also a putter-inner, and Shakespeare and Cervantes and Dostoievsky were great putter-inners and will be remembered for what they put in ... as long as Monsieur Flaubert will be remembered for what he left...
...golden rule may not apply in outer space. The International Astronautical Congress, which received the Pope's blessing at its meeting in Rome last week, heard Washington Lawyer Andrew G. Haley describe the basis of what he called "metalaw" (a coinage modeled on metaphysics). Doing unto others as we would they do unto us, said Haley, may not work with other "forms of existence." The spacemen of tomorrow may encounter "sapient beings different in kind," which may require that we "do unto others as they would have done unto them. We must treat them as they desire...