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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Britain's Family Doctor magazine opened an all-out campaign against snoring, asked all British sufferers (and their suffering spouses) to write in the answers to questions that might shed light on causes and remedies. Sample questions: At what age did the snorer begin snoring? In what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: And So to Sleep | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Lunik's course and timing were chosen, the Russians said, so that on the far side it would come close to a line drawn between the moon and the sun. As it approached the line, an electronic signal from the earth started its automatic machinery-and all sorts of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moon's Far Side | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

After all its film was exposed, an automatic mechanism set Lunik to spinning again, so that sunlight during its journey would not scorch one side while the other side froze and upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moon's Far Side | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Sea of Dreams. The moon pictures released so far look fuzzy, but experts consider them extraordinarily good, considering the fantastic difficulty of getting them at all. To laymen, the moon's far side, long populated by storytellers with strange beasts and weird civilizations, looks disappointingly like its visible side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moon's Far Side | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Nobel Prize for chemistry went to Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky, 68, of Charles University, Prague, the first Czechoslovak to win a Nobel Prize. The award came as much-belated recognition for his discovery of polarography, a delicate electrical method of chemical analysis. It works by measuring the properties of ions, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 1959 Nobelmen | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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