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After Mariners 6 and 7 photographed Mars last year and went into perpetual orbits around the sun, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted an important test. Using NASA's giant 210-ft. Goldstone antenna in the California desert, they beamed powerful radio signals past the sun toward the little unmanned spacecraft. When they reached the Mariners some 250 million miles away, the signals were automatically amplified on board and transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week...
Thirty-six of the 44 entries last week completed the trip from M.I.T. to Caltech in Pasadena. The winner: a 1971 Ford Capri burning unleaded gasoline and outfitted with an air-injection afterburner, an exhaust-gas recirculating system, and four catalytic mufflers to clean up exhaust partially before releasing...
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...Winter, 1968; Until the Sun Fails, 1969; and most recently Antichrist, released this spring at almost the same time as Cold Iron. A former graduate student in medieval history at Columbia and a onetime clerk at Brentano's Manhattan bookstore, Miss Holland recently moved to a commune in Pasadena, Calif., having become deeply involved with the world of West Coast rock. Her former publisher, Atheneum, refused to publish Cold Iron, because the company felt the book's seamier sides would damage the author's standing with her regular readership. She then offered it to McCall, which brought...
...Americans to Mars will not be made for years to come. The only phase of the space program that has escaped the budget cutters relatively unscathed has been the planetary probes, although these, too, will be delayed. Even William Pickering, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, and one of the men in charge of these unmanned trips, admits: "If I were in the manned program, I know I would be worried...