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Died. Charles S. Mott, 97, U.S. auto pioneer and philanthropist; following a severe case of influenza; in Flint, Mich. After moving his family's axle business from upstate New York to Flint in 1907, Mott sold the company to General Motors for shares of G.M. stock. He spent six decades on G.M.'s board of directors and was at one time the company's largest single stockholder. Though legendary for his personal frugality, he established the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 1926 to finance education, health and recreation programs, and built it into one of the nation...
...December rendezvous with Jupiter, the unmanned spacecraft Pioneer 10 last week finished the 210-day leg of its journey that took it through the asteroid belt. Pioneer. which was launched in March 1972, thus became the first vehicle from earth to pass safely through the vast ring of rocky debris that circles the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The relatively uneventful, 200 million-mile passage removed a major concern of both science-fiction writers and scientists: that spacecraft in the asteroid belt would be damaged and perhaps destroyed by flying rocks...
...belt, which consists mostly of tiny particles, rather than the chunky rocks that peril science-fiction space travelers. None of the impacts were made by fragments larger than a grain of sand, and none did any detectable damage to the thinly shielded $50 million craft. By carefully planning Pioneer's trajectory, controllers kept the ship at least 4,000,000 miles from those larger (at least seven miles in diameter) and rarer asteroids that can be seen by telescope on earth. Said NASA's newly confident Dr. William Kinard: "We're firmly convinced that the asteroid belt...
...often about returning to Birmingham and the importance of organization." In the early sixties, Miles students organized a newsmaking boycott that forced downtown businesses to integrate their facilities for the first time. When other Birmingham organizations shied away from "politically tainted" Federal programs, the college secured grants to pioneer Alabama's first voter education projects, VISTA, Head Start centers and the Manpower training project...
THOUGH THE PAST DECADE and a half has not been distinguished by pioneer literary criticism, it was certainly an age of great literary biographies. A few primary examples come to mind: Richard Elimann's biography of James Joyce (1959). W.J. Bate's of John Keats (1963), Henri Troyat's of Tolstoy (1967) and Leon Edel's of Henry James of which the final volume appeared early in 1972. All are definitive studies and brilliant. Quentin Bell's new biography of the British feminist critic and novelist. Virginia Woolf, while lacking the voluminous scope of some recent works because it intentionally...