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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOCAL FALLOUT. This is mostly the coarse, comparatively heavy material blasted out of the bomb crater. Although extremely dangerous, it spreads only a few hundred miles from the explosion. It does not get into the long-term circulation of the atmosphere, and it does not threaten the earth as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fission & Fallout | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...party of balloonists promptly undertook to fly over The Great Eyrie and see what they could see. They never made it. As the balloon approached the summit, a peculiar projectile came whooshing up and-splat! The gasbag fell into a crater. When the passengers came to their senses, they found themselves aboard the sort of crazy airship schoolboys have been sketching ever since Jules Verne produced those tomes of fantascience (Master of the World, Robur the Conqueror] that inspired this properly naive and lively little subteen special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Subteen Special | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...world's great spectacles of nature, and campers know it. They fished last week in the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest, threaded among the prehistoric ruins at Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, trailed the animals in the Adirondacks, bathed in the cold streams of South Willow Crater in Utah. On the moonscapes of Arizona, in the thick forests of Upper Michigan-wherever the land had managed to preserve its ancient dignity-both tenderfoot and oldtimer paid his respects to grandeur. In return, they absorbed something as ineradicable as it is elusive: the rapture of the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ah, Wilderness? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...Explainer himself (he is apt to say such things as, "The third act is an affirmative commentary on society in general"), Feiffer knows that he is writing to an audience of Georges. What is more remarkable, each George, as he watches the fable, feels the futility of a crater counter, and is half convinced that he is all alone on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Pied Feiffer | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Provided with the expert advice of the East Africa Tourist Travel Association and the help of a good guide, travelers cannot go far wrong in the region. At the lodge near the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanganyika are rooms ranging from double cabins (sharing outside kitchen and bath) from $8 a night, to a party cabin with four double bedrooms and a single, two private baths, kitchen, sitting room and dining room ($70 a night); food, bought at a local store, comes with the free service of a cook-houseboy. linen, cutlery, crockery. Hunters can also outfit themselves in Tanganyika with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Beyond the Horizon | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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