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...chief pilot for the U.S.-Canadian Icefield Ranges Research Project, Phil Upton had for years stared down from his plane at the billions of tons of antediluvian ice frozen onto the east slope of Mount Steele in Canada's Yukon Territory. Perhaps 20,000 years old, it looked much the same as any other glacier-until six weeks ago, when Upton gazed down and did a double take. To his astonishment, Steele Glacier's normally mirror-smooth surface now was churned into cathedral-like spires 250 ft. tall. The huge chunk of ice was on the move...
...steel treads while its 16-man crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When the crawler next emerges from the assembly building with a cargo, it will...
...walking wheelchair now being evaluated by the University of California at Los Angeles for the use of handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down a wheeled vehicle...
...roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville-d'Avray, of fortunes in old Roman silver to be found in Sardinia-meanwhile hiding from creditors in the home of one of his married mistresses...
...coastal chart and said, "Tell Alvin (the deep-diving research submarine that eventually found the bomb) to look here." Three weeks later, when the little sub finally located the missing bomb-2,500 feet below the surface, still shrouded in its parachute and perched precariously on a 70° slope-it was 1,200 yards from the final coordinates calculated in a laboratory over 5,000 miles away...