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Three Bounces. Surveyor's pictures also showed that the spacecraft was resting on a gentle slope inside a saucer-shaped crater about 150 ft. across and 20 ft. deep. Although the camera could not peek above the crater's rim, it revealed that the crater floor was relatively smooth, pockmarked with some smaller craters and littered with pebbles and a few rocks no larger than a foot across. All in all, it appeared that the area, one of the eight selected as possible targets for the Apollo mission, was level and uncluttered enough to allow the Apollo lunar...
...This is Mac calling all the team." The voice crackles with authority as loudspeakers carry it to every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation?the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...
Richard Nixon's well-worn hat settled gently last week on the rim of the 1968 presidential ring. In Bonn, West Germany, shortly after beginning a 21-month world tour, he acknowledged establishment of a national "Nixon for President Committee" headed by California's former Republican State Chairman Gaylord Parkinson...
...tire whose sidewalls, in the event of a puncture, will fold inward, leaving the tread to form a tight, flexible band around the wheel. Former Chrysler President William C. Newberg's entry may be the most novel of all. The device, called PosiTrac, is a steel rim fixed to the metal wheel inside an ordinary tire, capped with a thick rubber tread. In case of a blowout, the car can be rolled along on the inner rim at up to 30 m.p.h. Newberg claims that with Posi-Trac, which costs $80 a set, "nails, spikes, bullets, you name...
Manhattan is notorious for turning its back on its own waterfront. Not only is the island festooned with seedy, rat-infested piers; the waterfront itself is cut off by a rim of superdrives. Planners and architects have long dreamed of extending the island with marinas, heliports and apartment houses on stilts, but all plans so far have foundered in oceans of red tape, difficulties of finance, and massive indifference, from the mayor's office on down...