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Into the Sun. Much was undecided and unknown, the scientists emphasized. "This is just a beginning experiment and you don't know until you start . . . where you go from there. You want to crawl in space before you fly." But fantasy flashed irrepressibly through their sober scientific pronouncements: "It should be barely possible to see it at twilight with the naked eye . . . certainly with a good pair of binoculars ... It will be illuminated by the sun, just like the moon . . . very much like a little moon...
Thus, even as the Israelis rejoiced last week over their advance into the Negev, more sober officials realized that they had gone about as far south as they could go. In committing the Yarkon they had mortgaged almost their entire available water supply. (In fact, part of the annual 7 trillion cubic feet of water that will flow through the pipeline will be reclaimed from Tel Aviv's sewers...
...Congress, after all but abandoning legislation in favor of investigation, had once again become a legislative body. Public debate, after remaining for years at the level of a mudslinging exchange of personal accusations, had once again become reasoned and sober and factual...
...tribute to the U.N founders was sober and factual: "That there have been failures in attempts to solve international difficulties by the principles of the U.N. charter, none can deny. That there have been victories, only the wilfully blind can fail to see. But clear it is that without the United Nations the failures would still have been written as failures into history. And, certainly, without this organization the victories could not have been achieved; instead, they might well have been recorded as human disasters. These, the world has been spared...
Fever Tension. NBC's March of Medicine (sponsored by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and the American Medical Association) televised the removal of a tumor from a woman's breast. The camera was a straightforward reporter, blinking its impersonal eye at nothing. The sober absence of melodramatics intensified the drama of the operation. The TV audience knew that this was the real thing, taking place at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. Viewers were also told that if the tumor proved malignant, the operation would continue with the removal of the unidentified woman's breast...