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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the U.S., a new order of restless American stalks city and countryside carrying tiny transistors. He can't stand silence. With his gadget turned up full-blast, the bleatnik goes about his pursuits with ear and mind cocked to sportscasts, disk-jockeywockey and what passes for pop music. He plods along, swinging his radio like an attaché case, or stuffs it into his shirt pocket, while the unrelenting blabber transists him like exhaust fumes. If he is using an earpiece receiver, identification may be more difficult, but there are certain telltale signs, as there are of hopheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: The Bleatniks | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Water & Wheat Wafers. Defense Department plans are based on the grim realization that it is not merely hopelessly expensive, but tragically impossible, to protect 180 million Americans against the blast and flame of nuclear explosions; in a full-scale nuclear attack, as many as 50 million might die. What can be done, however, is to shield survivors from the deadly radioactive fallout that can drift down wind as far as 200 miles from a bomb blast. To protect against that danger, the $207.6 million requested last week will be spent mainly on a fallout shelter program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: All Out Against Fallout | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

Share the Patents? Testimony on the drug industry is aimed at building up support for Kefauver's drug-industry antitrust bill (S. 1552). As introduced last April in the Senate (and by New York Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House), the bill is a shotgun blast against everything that Kefauver dislikes in the pharmaceutical industry. It would require drug manufacturers to get licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and give FDA power to inspect and close their plants. It would prohibit marketing of new drugs until they have been proved effective and make FDA the judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors, Drugs & Dollars | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...survive) will start a project that will doubtless be close to their hearts: getting back to earth. In the clutter of equipment on their dusty lunar plain, they will find enough rocket engines, heat shields, navigation instruments and other parts to assemble five return vehicles, each of which can blast two men off the moon, return them to the earth and land them on its surface in, hopefully, good condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the Moon | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

Horse-Collar Rescue. Whatever the cause of the mishap, the next few moments were hectic. One helicopter tried to snap up the Liberty Bell 7. The second could not come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saga of the Liberty Bell | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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