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Kick in Reserve. Explorer VI is expected to hold its hip-swinging orbit for at least a year. During that time it may illuminate problems of the universe from Einstein's theory on the curvature of space to the question whether man can really get past the Van Allen radiation belts by entering space above the earth's poles. At week's end a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported: "The paddle wheel is doing well. It is converting solar energy into electrical energy. The signals are coming in loud and clear...
...less backed into long-range detection through his involvement in nuclear testing: now director of the field projects branch of the Office of Naval Research and chairman of the Navy's special weapons effects planning group, he has watched almost every U.S. nuclear test explosion in the past ten years...
...past Theologian Hromadka had said that he is no Communist, and his brethren had largely believed him; now they expected a more detailed reply. Hromadka obliged them. His position, in effect: 1) the church must be maintained at all cost in Communist countries; 2) Communism is not really hostile to religion; 3) Christianity might eventually transform and Christianize Communism...
Historian Webb sees the country's next frontier in the South. "Forget the misfortune and injustice of the past," he told the Texas Council for Social Studies last June. "If I could, I would convince the Southern people that their future is brighter than it has ever been in history. The South is the one region whose resources have been largely undeveloped and unexploited. It is not only possible but it is also probable that this next century will belong to the South...
Smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining, North by Northwest wears its implausibilities lightly, bobs swiftly past colored picture postcard backgrounds from Madison Avenue to South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, the U.N. Secretariat to George Washington's wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows...