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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under a quarter moon. Then, last May, Gordon Cooper took a special camera aloft with him and photographed the airglow as he passed over Australia on his 16th orbit. With color film twice as fast as anything available commercially, he shot a sharply defined green band 16 miles thick, distinct from the blue-white earth some 65 miles below. "It must have been a tremendous experience, seeing this wedding ring sticking up all around," says Physicist Edward P. Ney, who prepared the experiment along with two University of Minnesota colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Above the Green Veil | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Robert Lanchester attains no minor milestone. In Little Me Sid Caesar created a six distinct comic roles. Lanchester goes one step further--he creates six indistinct ones. On several occasions, though, he is very funny to watch as he combines verbal and visual dexterity. He makes the Shakespearian buffoon, Tedious, into a physically contorted Elizabethan-pretzel...

Author: By Alan JAY Mason, | Title: 'No Apologies' Final Ex Production | 8/21/1963 | See Source »

...addition to legal suits it is considered a distinct possibility that the NAACP will stage a massive demonstration in front of the School Committee offices in support of its position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Meeting Ends In Walkout; NAACP Threatens Suit, March | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Phil Campagne and John Stephenson, as the sheriff and constable respectively, opened the show on such a flat note that for a moment it seemed any decent high school cast would be a distinct improvement. Douglas Connor, the attorney who twists the law irregardless of justice, compounded the mediocrity...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Strindberg's 'Link': A Bitter Bond | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

...Viewpoints. Where does Goldwater stand on civil rights? And why the confusion and doubt about where he stands? The confusion arises largely because Goldwater has spoken out on civil rights from two distinct viewpoints -as a man who sympathizes with the Negroes' demands for equality and as a conservative bent on conserving constitutional government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where Barry Stands | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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