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...rocket engines. By firing those engines briefly, the crew will be able to put their ship into an elliptical orbit that will dip to within ten miles of the moon's airless surface. As they swoop through perigee, the men in the bug will study the barren geography below, trying to recognize places that they have seen on maps and photographs. They will be able to correct their orbit as they climb back to apogee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Washington, D.C., Carter-Barren Amphitheater: Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, with Ginger Rogers as the female sharpshooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

About a month ago one of these gapingly barren windows became cluttered with photos of a young man named Edward M. Kennedy, candidate for the United States Senate...

Author: By Alvin P. Sanoff, | Title: Candidates Maneuver In Senate Race | 7/30/1962 | See Source »

...Taste of Honey is the story of a girl's bruising search for identity in the barren brick flats of the English poor. As the girl, Rita Tushingham may be the cinemactress find of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Crossing. That movement is going on now. The average dividend yield on the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average has risen from 3.19% in early January to 3.87%. During the same period, the average yield on ten top-grade bonds in the Barren's index slipped from 4.41% to 4.19% because demand increased as some of the big institutional investors switched out of stocks and into bonds. If this narrowing between yields continues, stocks should become more appealing to investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Stocks v. Bonds | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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