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...Martian surface. With that successful maneuver, controlled entirely by its onboard computer, the $76.8 million windmill-shaped robot became the first man-made satellite of another planet. As pictures of the dust-obscured Martian surface began reaching earth, delighted mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Calif., reported that Mariner's twin TV cameras and ultraviolet and infra-red sensors were all performing flawlessly...
...comes to the highly volatile racial issue, children are much sought after, if not particularly outgoing, interview subjects. When Nancy Faber talked to several nine-and ten-year-olds in San Francisco, she found them "sensibly unexcited about discussing such delicate subjects as school integration and busing." From Pasadena to the slums of East Harlem, other correspondents reported on varying school conditions and community moods. In Boston, Philip Taubman discovered that "children aren't really interested in all the rhetoric. If they have to ride a bus, they just want to make sure that they can sit with their...
Despite their reticence about their goals, the Soviets have cooperated with the U.S. in establishing a "hot line" between Mariner's mission controllers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and Moscow, where the Russian Mars program is directed by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Thus if the American spacecraft or either of the Russian probes radios back some particularly intriguing observation, the information could be quickly exchanged by Teletype, giving both nations an opportunity to study the same phenomenon...
...formed a company called Telethon to document that reality off the TV screen. Telethon's first big project is a traveling show called The Television Environment-a thoroughly engaging, nonstop bombardment of slides and live TV that is currently playing at art museums in Vancouver, B.C., Berkeley and Pasadena, Calif., Tallahassee, Fla., and Baltimore...
...price of that choice is spelled out in the book's best selection, a 1970 commencement address at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Hatfield's growing opposition to the war in Viet Nam had already earned him a healthy amount of thinly disguised hate mail from "fellow Christians." The letters faulted the Senator for criticizing the President and accused him of encouraging antiwar protest. He came to the occasion in obvious anguish...