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Books
The Machinery of the Brain by Dean E. Wooldridge
Mariner: Mission to Venus by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Staff
Alumni Books:
Reliability: Management, Methods, and Mathematics by D. K. Lloyd and Myron Lipow '49
Enzyme and Metabolic Inhibitors (Vol. 1) by John L. Webb '36, PhD '40

Features:

Man at the Threshold of Space
Are we at the beginning of a golden era—or can we expect the submergence of all human values?
by William H. Pickering

Exploding Galaxy
Photographed for the first time

Atomic Arrangement
A Caltech chemist investigates how atoms organize themselves in intermetallic compounds.

Alumni Speak Out
Some random comments from the Alumni Survey Questionnaire.

Campus News:

The Summer at Caltech

Letters

Personals