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...where he was lecturing), Adler's Individual Psychology is still the Cinderella of depth psychology's Big Three. To Freudians, Adler's views are superficial and inadequate; to more mystical Jungians, they seem earth-bound and unimaginative. But in a new, revised edition of Alfred Adler (Vanguard; $5), British Novelist Phyllis (Private Worlds, The Mortal Storm) Bottome, biographer and longtime friend of Adler, sets out the principles of Individual Psychology so clearly and completely as to suggest that the Adlerian boat is not only still afloat but still carrying riches in its neglected cargo. Adler...
...matter of minutes after the Navy blasted off its fifth Vanguard rocket at Cape Canaveral one night last week, instruments flashed word to Central Control that all three stages had fired successfully, that the third stage was sailing along faster than the 18,000 m.p.h. needed to orbit. But from downrange tracking stations came a warning that the third stage was climbing at too sharp an angle. After San Diego reported no signal at all, Navy scientists sadly concluded that there was a malfunction in the guidance system, that the rocket failed to keel over into the near-horizontal course...
...fourth failure in five attempts to launch a Vanguard satellite...
Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...
...third group of instruments serves the first two groups, regulating temperature, turning apparatus on and off at the proper times and transmitting data to earth. Like its predecessors, Sputnik III transmits on two frequencies, 20.005 and 40.002 megacycles. It has chemical batteries and also solar batteries like the U.S. Vanguard satellite...