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...replied Carpenter. "I have the moon in the center of the window, and the booster is off to the right slightly." During his flight, Carpenter was supposed to complete several experiments that Glenn had been unable to carry out because of attitude-control system problems. He was scheduled to photograph cloud formations, test for the polarization of sunlight, look for comets close to the sun, take eye and balance tests, and exercise with a thick rubber band. But on the first orbit Carpenter began maneuvering the capsule by the "fly-by-wire" system, a semiautomatic device something like power steering...
...well-known Rolling Power, picturing the wheels of a steam locomotive, could be mistaken for a tightly composed close-up photograph. But gradually Sheeler came to believe that "a picture could have incorporated in it the structural design implied in abstraction and have a wholly realistic manner." Often picking for his subjects simple, linear masses-barns, bridges, machines-Sheeler drafted knife-sharp contours and smooth surfaces, sometimes with bright and unrealistic colors...
...looked with nostalgia at the photograph of Merrywood [May 11, where "from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis and gamboled about." From the time I was 10 (seven years before the Bouvier arrival), I also swam, played tennis, etc. there, and it is sad to see the old place...
Pittsburgh ≫Says Sophia: "Yes. You know why? Because it shows the soul and the character. A painting doesn't have to be a photograph. A painting is a painting because it shows what you've got inside." For more reaction from Sophia, see Show Business...
Walt Dressier is the reluctant candidate. He is a smalltown lawyer, has ideals, and spouts them. His supporters, including Emil Hornstein, his campaign manager, listen with horrified dismay and, unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...