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Someone once asked Babe Ruth how he came to hit so many home runs. The Babe grinned and replied, "Because I don't like to run out singles." This season, two other sluggers who hate singles are swinging for the fences: Oakland's Reggie Jackson and Washington's Frank Howard. One out of every four hits that Ruth produced during his 21-year career was a home run; Jackson and Howard have been walloping them at the rate of one in every three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fence-Busters | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...accounts the most likable member of the crew. Though he comes from a distinguished military family, he goes out of his way to slop around in jeans and act as unmilitary as possible. He enjoys cooking gourmet dinners and knows his way around French wines. To Collins, everybody is "Babe," and he likes to poke fun at the bloated titles that the simplest pieces of space hardware carry. "What we need in the space program is more English majors," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: THE CREW: MEN APART | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...dropped, along with the test tubes she was carrying. Martin summoned up the dopeyest basset hound-Pat Paulsen deadpan he could imagine until she finally realized he was kidding (Thank God! Man, what a sober little babe!) and began to laugh. so did Martin, and, to his discomfort, the entire biology...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...across the lunar sky in their spiderlike module. As they approached the moon's surface at a speed of 3,700 m.p.h., Cernan cried: "We're right there! We're right over it! I'm telling you, we are low, we're close, babe. This is it!" At one point, the astronauts swooped to within 47,000 ft. of the moon's surface-not much higher than the altitude at which commercial jets fly over the earth. "We're getting so close," said Stafford, "all you have to do is put your tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NINE MILES FROM THE GOAL | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...surface. Nor does he agree with Brecht's theory of the theater, though he does use a few Brechtian techniques. He feels much closer to the theatrical ideas of the black theater in New York, and to the political interpretations of Shakespearean plays that Harvard directors like Mayer and Babe have experimented with...

Author: By Aileen Jacobson, | Title: On Art and Politics | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

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