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Awesome Panorama. If all goes well, the plan calls for a moon landing after a steep, 25° descent. As the astronauts swoop into the mountainous Hadley-Apennine region, the sharp slant of their approach path will give them an excellent view of the designated touchdown area, which is just west of a lunar feature called Index Crater. After that, Apollo activities for the next 67 hrs. are precisely scheduled. The plan...
...gradual loss of employee enterprise in some factories and offices, along with an increase in shoddy workmanship and malingering. At General Motors, where the absenteeism rate runs a high 5.5%. Labor Relations Director George B. Morris says that the company would not have much trouble paying Detroit's steep wage rates "if only our workers would show up." Many Americans undoubtedly still want to work, but they expect more psychological rewards and less drudgery than earlier generations were willing to accept...
...same time an eastward freight sweeps by on the descending grade. After Victorville it is a climb of 1,106 ft. in 19 miles to the summit of Cajon Pass, eerily shrouded in fog. We crawl along, watching for signals looming out of murk, then creep down the steep slope, air brakes hissing, to San Bernardino. Suddenly all is neon lights, freeways, gas stations and palm trees...
...hour stopover in Reykjavik can cross the Atlantic for $279 on a peak-season 29-to 45-day ticket by flying Icelandic, the only non-IATA airline regularly running between North America and Western Europe. But its jetliners land only in Luxembourg. If the fare is still too steep, the prospective traveler has one final choice: he can try to go to work for an airline, most of which offer employees 90% reductions after six months of work...
...pyramid builders to improve upon their first effort, the Step Pyramid at nearby Saqqara. Rather than settling for the stepped inner structure, as they had done at Saqqara, they covered the Medûm pyramid with a smooth mantle that on each of the four sides ascended at a steep 52° angle. But, Mendelssohn says, as the heavy mantle grew, the stresses became so great that it eventually came tumbling down in a giant rockslide...