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...duets with her faithless lover (Ivan Nagy), she matched each line of leg and arm to perfection. Transformed, in the second act, into a gossamer-clad Wili, she showed little tenderness, but conveyed a remote melancholy. Always, when she broke into dance, there was that sudden transformation of earth-bound mortal into incredible creature of some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Little Juggernaut | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...THESE preparations may appear ex-??me, especially since NBC and CBS ??th plan live color coverage from Mexico, but a total eclipse is one of the most spectacular of natural phenomena. For earth-bound observers, there are four major eclipse features to watch...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: ?? Blotted Out-From the Sky | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

Ultra-violet measurements, like these, are important because ultra-violet rays from the sun occasionally interfere with earth's radio communications, and the energy from these invisible light waves supplies much of the solar heat that determines the earth's weather. Astronomers use slight, variations in the sun's ultra-violet spectrum as clues to the chemical and physical reactions goingon at various depths in the sun. By comparing satellite measurements of invisible radiation with earth-bound records of the sun's visible light, scientists should be able to predict some of these reactions and their effects on earth...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Harvard Outpost Watches Sun | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...alone. He mocks religion in the guise of popery, and he imagines the triumph of will defiant beyond limit. But he wakes in the night with the sweaty fear of death. And he sees that man makes all the moral rules there are, as he makes his own earth-bound hellfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage Abroad: A Double Crown | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...goes well, they will rendezvous with Collins and transfer to the command module, taking their precious rocks with them in sealed boxes and leaving the LM in orbit around the moon. From that point on, they will again follow the path of Apollo 10. After firing themselves into an earth-bound trajectory, they will splash down in the Pacific Ocean some 1,160 miles southwest of Hawaii just before 1 p.m. (E.D.T.) on Thursday, July 24, their places in history assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON: FLIGHT PLAN OF APOLLO 11 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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