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The brainchild of the University of Chicage's Dr. Marcel Schein and financed by the National Science Foundation, the balloon rig is designed to catch cosmic ray particles while they are still streaking in from distant space at interstellar speed, unhampered by dense air. Even those that are single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Air's Outer Edge | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

This in turn inspired the more ingenious students to attempt to decipher the system, so only that part of the lesson they would be called upon to discuss had to be studied. Rivalry between students and tutors was keen, with victory in the long run falling equally to both sides...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Start of Harvard Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

An example of the challenge facing parents is Tigrett Industries' fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Challenge for Parents | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Red Is for Danger. The one quality Klee would not tolerate was vagueness. He contrived an elaborate visual lexicon in which he "explained" his favorite devices (dots, lines, arrows, planes) and assigned to each a meaning according to its direction or placement. But, as in Fire Wind (opposite), little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Magician's Handwriting | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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