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...Washington, the Administration's top political strategists began specific planning toward a big registration drive for 1962, a pinpoint analysis of the most vulnerable Republican congressional seats, a search for new Democratic workers on the local level. On the Republican side, National Chairman Miller announced that five groups of G.O.P. Congressmen-to be known as "Paul Revere Panels"-will begin touring the country this week, bearing down on "dangerous current trends in the Administration...
Since Russia achieved the same space feat last February by sending a satellite toward Venus from a similar parking orbit around the earth, U.S. missilemen, still trying to pinpoint last week's Ranger failure, looked for consolation in the near success. At least Ranger's complex instruments were behaving perfectly, and the Atlas-Agena combination had got off to a beautiful start...
...SONG OF HIAWATHA (Pipestone, Minn.), an even more expansive redskin opera, has a stage more than a quarter of a mile wide with lighting that can pinpoint one face in the darkness or illuminate an acre of land. The hybrid Longfellow narrative comes out of loudspeakers while the actors pantomime, but even without dialogue, the leading role is so strenuous that fresh Hiawathas are sent in like substitute halfbacks to spell the panting starter. Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks. Skillfully J-stroking his canoe back...
Peter Lanyon, 43. Living in the harsh hills of Cornwall, Lanyon studies land and sea by foot, car and snorkel, but his passion is to float silently overhead in a red glider (see color). This leads him to probe in paint the mysteries of experience, to try to pinpoint man's place in nature, neither here (on the ground) nor there (in the air). "We must break that 18th century way of looking into the foreground," he insists. "Painting has to look behind its back...
Transit's intricate workings [TIME, July 7] depend on an electronic system that ground stations can "inject" with information enabling the satellite to tell where it is on its orbit. Ships with proper equipment (a precision receiver and a computer) can pinpoint the moment when the satellite comes closest to them, how far away it is, and in what direction. From this information, the computer can quickly deduce the ship's position...