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Even as their own Mars vehicle raced toward its goal, the Soviets had another reason to be pleased. Six months after its landing, the eight-wheeled moon rover, Lunokhod I, was still continuing its lunar explorations, digging up soil samples with a conical drill and analyzing them with on-board instruments. It was also photographing the moonscape and scanning the heavens with an X-ray telescope that has already detected at least two sources of X-ray emissions in distant space. So overjoyed were the Russians by Lunokhod's performance that Pravda was moved to proletarian metaphor and compared...
...Land Rover...
...TIME [March 22] there is an excellent color photograph of a Land Rover. The caption to this photograph describes the vehicle as a Jeep. I am sure you will understand when I say that we are surprised that a magazine with your reputation for accuracy has described our product by the name of its principal U.S. competitor...
J.K.S. CARPENTER Sales Director The Rover Company Ltd. Solihull, England...
...true, the B's can pack more ammo into a blue zone now than all the tea in China. Picture it: added to the Espo line are the two Hulls at the point and Mikita as a rover. That thought alone should make the Gumper retire...