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...better explorers than heavy, vulnerable humans, who require tons of supplies and equipment to keep them alive. Instruments are smaller, lighter and tougher than men. They can stand acceleration, shock, vibration, spinning, heat, cold and radiation. Best of all, they do not demand to be brought home alive. They transmit to earth all the information that they have gathered in space: then they die as streaks of fire without reproach or protest. Or they land on the moon or Mars and stay there, reporting faithfully until their radios fade...
...Sidewinder missile, which seeks out the enemy aircraft by homing in on the heat from its engines. The company also provided the detection equipment for the surveillance satellite Midas. On the commercial market Infrared Industries offers a toy walkie-talkie that uses an infra-red beam to transmit up to i.ooo ft. in the daytime...
POSTAL RATE HIKES to 5? on first-class, 8? on air mail, will be asked of Congress by the Kennedy Administration-a repeat of an Eisenhower effort to trim the Post Office deficit. Kennedy also is abandoning an unsuccessful $4.5 million experiment to transmit letters by facsimile...
...Colonel Hoagland, who knows his West Point cadets, has pinned it down. Among 73 mono patients at West Point, no fewer than 71 had been dating six weeks earlier and had got as far as "deep kissing." A quick buss on the lips is probably not enough to transmit the virus...
Edmund N. Bacon, professional advisor to the memorial commission, said that the design would blend into nature and become part of the Washington, D.C. Tidal Basin without dominating it. The rejected designs, Bacon stated, were formalistic and geometric, while the eight soaring tablets "directly transmit the words and thoughts" of the late President...