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...CAMBODIA. One of the greatest kings of early Buddhism was Cambodia's Jayavarman VII, the builder of Angkor Wat. Today leftist Prince Sihanouk, as Cambodia's Chief of State and High Protector of the Buddhist religion, assiduously cultivates the god-king role. Following the Buddhist road of the middle, intones Sihanouk, he means to be halfway between capitalism and Marxism at home and neutralist abroad...
...ablest contemporary poets as her lyricists, she convinced even a contemporary London music critic, George Bernard Shaw, that she was "technically, highly accomplished." Among other aficionados: Spain's King Alphonso XIII, though he laughed at all the wrong parts, and Britain's roistering King Edward VII, who saw her each summer at Marienbad at the luncheons that he reserved for the untouchables...
...enjoyed your well-prepared and well-presented article on the recent trip of Ranger VII to the moon [Aug. 7]. Overlooked by many, but not by me, was the speed with which you prepared this story and rushed it into the hands of your readers...
Valuable as it was for its own discoveries, the flight of Ranger VII gave a tremendous boost to the entire U.S. space program. Gigantic rockets are already being built for manned exploration of the moon, but before a man dares to blast off, astronomers must learn the nature of the l And their biggest telescopes cannot tell them whether to expect fluffy dust or jagged rocks, smooth plains or pockmarked lava. Hampered by the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere, they can see nothing that is smaller than one mile across. Ranger VII's cameras, during their last...
Building such machines meant that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena had to build an entirely new and difficult technology. But last week's performance of Ranger VII was an intricate exercise in perfection. The Atlas booster took off from Cape Kennedy as routinely as a commuter leaving for the railroad station. After the Atlas dropped off, the Agena second stage put Ranger VII in a parking orbit, and twenty-two minutes later, the Agena fired again, giving the spacecraft the correct speed and direction to take it to a rendezvous with the moon...