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...beyond doubt one of the greatest achievements of Soviet science. By landing the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft softly on the surface of the moon in condition to take and transmit pictures, Russian space scientists did more than edge ahead of the U.S. in the race to place a man on the lunar landscape. They proved that he would find a surface solid enough to stand on when he got there. Inexplicably, after announcing the landing, the Russians delayed capitalizing further on their triumph. Then, when British astronomers intercepted Luna 9's pictures and released them first, a Soviet scientist...
...NORAD officer with a significant combination of symbols built up on his console can transmit his "display" to any other console screen in the center or, within seconds, have it projected on the large screen for everyone to see. By pointing a narrow beam from a light gun at an area of particular interest on his console screen, an operator can enlarge that area 16-fold or cause it to flash on and off on other screens to alert the rest of the staff...
...slogans and they have failed. We have tried educational programs based on fear of alcohol and they have failed." And although the best place to teach children the dangers of alcohol is in the home, "parents are too confused and too guilty about their own drinking practices to transmit anything beyond their own ambivalence." So that leaves the schools. "As we have reduced the rate of accidents in a high-incidence group of traffic-accident-prone individuals by driver-training programs, perhaps we can lower the incidence of unhealthy alcohol use." The 14-to-16 age period, he believes...
...sense that steel or aluminum is. And the underlying assumption of the wage-price guideline is that excessive wage or price increases in key industries have an inflationary impact on the American economy. How great, really, is the danger that an "excessive" transit settlement in New York will transmit inflation to the economy as a whole...
...group feels that lectures tend to transmit inaccurately and imprecisely information that could be gleaned from textbooks and periodicals. Furthermore, textbooks and periodicals. Furthermore, the labs "waste time" on experiments that "have little relevance to the science of medicine," the spokesman explained...