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An unmanned spacecraft such as Mariner must be designed, as a human baby, to cope successively with three different environments. First it must face life on Earth, snuggled by gentle gravitation and sheltered by the atmosphere. So careful are its guardians to keep it clean and uncontaminated, they even dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Voyage to the Morning Star | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Somewhere between the farm and the home refrigerator, fresh fruits and vegetables in the U.S. are almost sure these days to get a scientific going over. Antiseptic washes, ultraviolet light, sulphur dust, gamma rays-the possibilities are almost endless, but the purpose is almost always the same: to stop decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long Life for Food | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Died. Abraham Levitt, 82, builder, whose mass-production-minded sons William and Alfred broke the building of a house down into 26 assembly-line steps, made their family firm, Levitt & Sons, one of the biggest U.S. home builders, slapping together 40,000 low-cost dwellings in three uniformly antiseptic developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Jackie Gleason, the massive Minnesota Fats in The Hustler, once observed that poolrooms have a "dirty antiseptic look-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Blue Pool | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

The room called The Sultan's Table has a mosquelike dome, a 25-foot "grape tree" (from which wafts the artificial fragrance of grapes), and ten strolling violinists. "I wanted them to play Stradivaris," said Sahara's Host Manny Skar, who was once convicted of burglary, "but my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Out of the Desert | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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