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...astronomy just about reached its limit with the completion of the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope in 1948. Bigger optical telescopes will not be much better because of the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere. This deadlock may be broken by automatic telescopes carried by satellites far above all trace of air. Even if rather small, the telescopes will see much more clearly than the 200-incher. Perhaps they will settle the question of the "canals" on Mars. They will certainly observe in the heavens kinds of radiation (X-ray and ultraviolet) that cannot penetrate the atmosphere. This type...
Pursuit of Excellence. David Dean Rusk (he decided early in life to drop the David) has come a long way from his edge-of-poverty beginnings in Georgia, but the qualities that he will bring to his new job trace back to his pinched but nourishing origins...
...colony, Hong Kong has personal freedom and uninhibited free enterprise but no trace of political democracy. The colony is run by the British governor, and only 20,000 specially selected citizens have any vote at all. Though U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt considered Hong Kong an embarrassing hangover from colonialism and twice urged Britain to return Hong Kong to Chiang Kai-shek's China, there is no irredentist sentiment among Hong Kong's Chinese, or even any agitation for independence. As they well know, an independent Hong Kong would be swallowed up by Red China in a matter...
...campaign to the January inaugural. When the Nixons finally appeared, both networks closed in on a TV sight not soon to be forgotten-Pat Nixon, her face a portrait of distress almost under control, struggling hopelessly to do the smiling job her husband was accomplishing with ease, showing a trace of terror when the unsolemn crowd interrupted Nixon to shout: "We want...
Second, it is safe to assume that one could trace the development of the Peace Corps and discover hundreds of originators. To save controversy, I like to refer to a 1910 essay by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War. This was followed in 1926 by a delightful story by Richard J. Walsh called When the Earth Trembled. For that matter, one can find traces of the idea in the tenth chapter of Luke...