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For all the technological help at his disposal, the job was unusually tricky. Because radio signals travel at the speed of light-186,000 miles per second -Fendell's commands took 1.8 seconds to reach the camera. Another three seconds elapsed before the image arrived back in Houston (the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: NASA's Captain Video | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

The "A. and T." program was conceived five years ago by Maurice Tuchman, the museum's 34-year-old senior curator. His idea was to persuade U.S. firms to place their technical resources and a bit of their cash at the disposal of a group of artists in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man and Machine | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

The emphasis is on technical assistance in agronomy, water and soil development, highway planning, port development, fish breeding, sewage disposal, nutrition and handicrafts. Israeli experts have established citrus plantations in Madagascar and Uganda, a steamship line and a 16,000-acre cattle ranch in Ghana, a beekeeping industry in Senegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Israel's Stake in Black Africa | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

But with a truly revolutionary liberation force, the United States-in spite of all the military machinery at its disposal-could reach no understanding or mutual trust; her outlook, her diplomacy, her negotiating language were all alien to such a force. And in the absence of common ground, the only...

Author: By David Landau, | Title: Kissinger: Facing Down the Vietnamese | 5/28/1971 | See Source »

Strong Difference. Since the boating boom of the early 1960s, though, boatmen and lawmen have agreed that old-fashioned heads are no longer adequate. But they differ strongly in their assessment of two newer ways to control boat sewage: 1) "primary treatment" on board in a device known as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hysteria over Heads | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

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