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RUSSIA'S Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (left) never built a rocket, but by 1898 he had worked out the basic principles of rocket dynamics. America's Robert Hutchings Goddard (right) launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926 and patented 214 devices and parts, most of them essential to the operation of modern rocket engines. Germany's Hermann Oberth (center) popularized the idea of space travel as a real possibility in his 1923 bestseller The Rocket into Planetary Space, and his writing helped inspire Germany to early prominence in the field...
...President's two brothers. "It's purely interpretive. I have nothing to equate it with. I don't know whether it is like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert Rauschenberg, John Meigs and William Thon at Cape Kennedy to sketch his impressions of this week's scheduled Apollo 11 blastoff to the moon...
...Dean Robert Farley was eased out of the University of Mississippi law school for insisting that James Meredith had a legal right to attend Ole Miss. As Farley's successor, the trustees appointed a safer man: Joshua M. Morse III, an Ole Miss alumnus and law professor who has opposed Farley's subversive ideas. But Dean Morse, now 46, soon showed signs of heresy himself. He strayed North for a year of graduate study at Yale law school, returned with a sense of social mission that dramatically changed Ole Miss-and has now doomed him to Farley...
...bright young Yale-trained lawyers for his faculty. To combat Ole Miss's "provincial outlook," he got the Ford Foundation to put up $500,000 for hiring more Yale teachers, plus 30 visiting lecturers from Harvard, Columbia and N.Y.U. The Morse mood attracted speakers like Charles Evers and Robert F. Kennedy, whose jibes at Governor Ross Barnett were cheered by 4,500 rebel students, among them sons of Mississippi's leading segregationists. At one point, the Ole Miss law school enrolled 15 black students-more than any other non-Negro law school in the U.S. Not only that...
...detective work began five years ago, when Australian National University's Dr. Robert Kirk collected blood specimens from a group of aborigines and sent samples to Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg at Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. Blumberg, who was studying the effects of frequent blood transfusions for diseases such as leukemia, tested blood from many parts of the world. Of 24 samples examined, only one from an aborigine caused the test-tube reaction he was looking for. Blumberg found the cause to be an ultramicroscopic viruslike particle. He and Dr. Harvey J. Alter, of the National Institutes...