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Lunar Orbiter 1 last week became the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the moon-and the first orbiter ever to transmit lunar photographs back to earth, where Americans could see them live on TV amid their afternoon soap operas...
...fewer than 65% of the E. coli and 92% of Proteus vulgaris resisted at least one important drug. Equally sobering, researchers note that antibiotics are now routinely put in livestock feed to suppress bacteria and stimulate the animals' growth. This procedure may well produce animal bacteria that transmit drug resistance to bacteria that infect humans; indeed, such new strains may be resistant to all penicillins and tetracyclines...
...orbiter's prime mission is to transmit some 350 medium-and high-resolution pictures of nine possible landing sites for U.S. astronauts near the lunar equator. It will also take an admiring look at Surveyor 1, which now sits silently on the moon's Ocean of Storms after prodigiously transmitting more than 11,000 close-up pictures last June. After dry-developing its own film, Lunar Orbiter 1 will use a light scanner one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair to send pictures back to earth for kinescope reproduction...
...Transmit each verse, thrice scribed In lines twice spaced To mosty-halled Matthews, Room four, all arched...
...have taken the same level in literature that is occupied by so many of his contemporaries: Petroleum V. Nasby, Josh Billings, George Washington Cable and Bret Harte. But blandness was not in him. He was a reformer-all edges, out of patience with his times, and desperately anxious to transmit the message to all who would listen. Kaplan's book helps explain why the world is listening still...