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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grissom served as the little-known backup man for Shepard's historic Project Mercury flight. Five weeks later, Gus roared out of obscurity aboard Liberty Bell 7 as the second American in space. His 118-mile-high suborbital flight was a success, but the splashdown in the Atlantic ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield . . . | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Grissom got that chance when he was picked as the pilot of America's first two-man spacecraft. With the launching of Gemini 3 on its three-orbit flight on March 23, 1965, Grissom became the first man ever to journey twice into space. Aided by Co-Pilot John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield . . . | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Li, or the principle of social order, prevents the rise of moral or social chaos as a dam prevents a flood. A people who do away with the old principle of social order meet with moral disaster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Death of Li | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Few Out-of-Towners? The real, long-term economic damage was done to Chicago itself. Following housewares, 31 other major shows were scheduled at McCormick Place in coming months. Some 1,300,000 out-of-towners would have attended Chicago exhibitions this year, contributing close to $325 million to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conventions: The Cost of the New Chicago Fire | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Still, the big problem of too much is likely to keep growing. Attracted by ample federal tax writeoffs on the cost of developing new groves, growers will have increased Florida's orange acreage from 500,000 to 800,000 acres by 1970. Barring a godsend, that adds up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Orange Crush | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

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