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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...
Transit is being injected with information on schedule, has proved its efficiency by giving land stations their already known positions. So far, it has not told any ships where they are on the ocean, but only because no ship at sea has the proper receiving equipment. Probably the first to get such equipment will be the nuclear submarines. When they poke a whip antenna above the surface to listen to Transit they will be able to tell where they are within 600 ft. A navigator who shoots the sun or stars with a sextant in good weather does an excellent...
Director John Hancock, fortunately, has recognized the importance of the unheroic king; and his giving the role to Paul Barstow has been one of his most intelligent directorial decisions to date. Mr. Barstow can deliver his lines with just the proper amount of quiet, stiff and confused earnestness. A "cook" in the "kitchen" of politics Antigone calls him; but he is not wholly contemptible--and Mr. Barstow makes him as much a king as he is a compromiser...
...Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her death. Miss Hewitt had mailed her own obituary to Mrs. Ogden Reid, onetime publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...
...President. But both the proper care of the aged and the A.M.A.'s concern over the threat to U.S. medicine may well turn out to be vanishing problems. The answer for both could lie in the growth of private prepayment plans, usually combined with group practice. Communities, counties and corporations are hard at work all over the U.S. spreading such plans, and the recent benison of the A.M.A. is certain to allay the objections of many balky doctors. Therein lies the significance of Leonard Larson, a man who can look at all the ferment calmly...