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More than half a billion miles from earth this week, a small (570 Ibs.), unmanned spacecraft is completing the first lap of an incredible journey. As it hurtles past Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 m.p.h., some 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, Pioneer 11 is slated to use its cameras and instruments to reconnoiter the solar system's largest planet. That will be only part of its task. As it passes 26,000 miles above Jupiter's turbulent cloudtops, the spacecraft will be pulled by the planet's gravitational field into a corkscrew-shaped...
...skirting Jupiter so closely, Pioneer 11 will plunge deeper into the planet's intense radiation belts than did Pioneer 10, which passed 81,000 miles from the cloudtops last December. As a result, Pioneer 11 will be subjected to radiation perhaps ten times as powerful as that encountered by its predecessor, which escaped with only minor damage to its instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels...
PRESIDENT BOK flew down to New York last week to speak at a NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund dinner given in honor of John W. Davis. Because Davis has been a pioneer in the modern struggle to give black people equal rights in the educational system, Bok said he wanted his speech to offer an accounting of the way Harvard has tried to mete out justice in its treatment of black. Considering that the Bok administration has never had a very easy time dealing with minorities, a general stocktaking such as the one the NAACP was privy to last...
Died. Fernanda Wanamaker Leas, 52, millionheiress and socialite; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of John Wanamaker, pioneer department store merchandiser, she was a successful retailer in her own right. Twice divorced, she was reportedly undergoing treatment for alcoholism when she fell from the fifth floor of her Manhattan apartment two months ago, suffering numerous fractures. She was recovering in Lenox Hill Hospital when pneumonia...
Empire State received the award, Warren said, because the school has been a "pioneer" in developing educational techniques in co-operation with labor unions and industrial concerns...