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According to DOT Secretary John Volpe, 50,000 copies of SST-T-T have been distributed to educators as part of the department's Interagency Aircraft

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Supersonic Teaching | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...wore tan shoes and pink shoelaces, a polka dot vest and a big panama with a purple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Bang Your Box' Means Play Your Piano or Organ And Colonel Tom Parker Had Dancing Chickens | 1/26/1972 | See Source »

...cold wind drives waves of snow across the flat, white landscape that is Barrow, Alaska. In mid-November, the sun dipped below the southwestern horizon, bringing winter darkness that will last into January. The city lies wrapped in a frigid cocoon of Arctic night. Beached boats of varying sizes dot the snow-covered ice pack that runs along the shore of the Chukchi Sea. That is the limit of Alaska's North Slope, the last land between America and the North Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Barrow, Alaska: Cold Frontier | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...moon shone that Saturday night in March 1960 in St. Martin, a picturesque dot of a town on the coast of Jersey, largest of the bucolic Channel Islands. As the village slept, a silent intruder broke into a small cottage, abducted a 14-year-old girl from her ground-floor bedroom and led her to a nearby field, where he raped her and nearly strangled her by twisting a rope around her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Hermit of Les Ecr | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...message also makes it evident that the transmitting race has learned spaceflight. How else would it know that there is water on the third planet (as shown by the waves extending from the third dot) with aquatic life flourishing beneath it? To the left of each of the planets are dots that can easily be identified as binary numbers. By assuming that the number opposite the first planet is one, the second planet two, and so on, scientists can spot the alien binary code. Giving their imaginations free rein, they can also recognize that the three groups of dots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hello, Earth, Do You Read Me? | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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