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Launched from Cape Kennedy last March, the instrument-packed Pioneer 10 is scheduled to make the first flyby of Jupiter late next year. But for the next seven months, NASA scientists will be watching to see whether their spaceship can pass unharmed through the 175 million-mile-wide asteroid belt. The greatest danger may not come from any of the 1,831 charted asteroids that range in diameter from one mile to 480 miles, but from untold numbers of tiny fragments, some of them no bigger than a grain of talcum powder. At typical asteroid speeds (30,000 m.p.h.), such...
Died. Josephine P. Boardman Crane, 98, pioneer of progressive education, in Falmouth, Mass. A philanthropist and founder of the New York Museum of Modern Art, Mrs. Crane was the original sponsor of the Dalton Plan, a much-copied experiment in education adopted in 1919 in the Dalton, Mass., public school near her home. The plan, now the basis of New York's Dalton and many other schools, permits students to work at their own pace, freed from daily assignments, provided they meet a set goal...
...Dynamo" is the other Ballard rave-up. The shouted vocal owes a bit to Steve Miller's pioneer work in the field of white blues singing. Argent's piano playing here is strictly honky tonk: in total concept, the song faintly echoes some of Fleetwood Mac's later efforts. Ballard takes his only solo on this tune, and shows himself to be an adequate guitarist, even if he does sound like a cautious Jimmy Page...
...Jones, a pioneer in the development of swept-wing aircraft, proposes building an SST with a single elliptical-shaped wing that would pivot on the fuselage. During takeoff, the wing would be set at right angles to the fuselage to provide maximum lift. But as the plane approached supersonic speed, the wing would be pivoted by about 45 ° to reduce drag, making the craft resemble a flying pair of scissors...
...Vincent Dole of New York's Rockefeller University Hospital, a pioneer in the use of methadone, argues that physicians should relieve, not increase, the suffering of the heroin addict. Most drug users apparently agree. Addicts are far more likely to turn themselves in for treatment if chemical substitutes are offered than if the prospect is cold turkey. The flaws in that argument are that American treatment programs have a high relapse rate and that the addiction epidemic is nowhere near being checked...