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The Navy is encouraged by its success in making an engine with a thrust that can be controlled so precisely. But engineers who have been working on the rocket since 1958 realize only too well that many a problem remains before far-flying spaceships can make such soft landings on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soft-Landing Rocket | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

At post time, the Derby still was anybody's race. The coffee-colored track at Churchill Downs was soggy from heavy rains the day before, and the big, 15-horse field included Crozier, a courageous black colt that won the Derby Trial in record time, and California's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Asked to Run | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Those who have discerned a frivolous irrelevancy in the preceding paragraph will be heartened to hear that I will now comment upon the issue of the Advocate whose red and lavender cover shimmers on Cambridge news-stands. While the 1876 collection gave rise to unallayed pleasure, perusal of its descendant...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 5/11/1961 | See Source »

It is now more than 15 years since the Nürnberg trials were held. If war criminals are to be tried at this late date, surely it is the responsibility of the descendant of the authority that created the Nürnberg court, the U.N. Yet we have one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Eagle Scout. After all that, it was no surprise that Major Gagarin's authorized biography read as if it had been manufactured to fit the occasion. What was released to a curious world was a wordperfect picture of the "new Soviet man" -it might well have described a U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cruise of the Vostok | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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