Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead story of the flight's significance, had to deal with four children whose godfather, a space scientist involved in getting man to Mars, had made them extremely sophisticated about the precise details of the voyage. Ronald Kriss, whose own two children were no less fascinated by the event, coordinated and edited the stories that, the editors of TIME hope, put into proper perspective last week's historic flight by the Men of the Year...
...reform was not their stated aim. Predictably, they also provoked resistance and reaction, only entrenching the forces under attack. As the year ended, a different sort of revolution suddenly forced itself into the world's imagination. It was represented by the flight around the moon-perhaps the only event of the year to which, in the devalued coinage of the language, the word revolutionary might still be properly applied...
...agonies of earth. It was possible to look at the moon over a Harlem or Watts rooftop and feel only bitterness at the money spent, the vast effort made, in a cause that would not alter a single life, a single dwelling in the ghetto. And yet the event was really incalculable in its consequences. Nothing comparable has happened in man's history, except possibly the great ocean voyages that led to the discovery of the New World -and to the transformation of Western man. In Columbus's day, as German Author Joachim Leithauser has pointed out, mankind...
...every four of the continent's citizens now live under military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
...programming, the fee-vee system would not be allowed to bid for TV fare that is now available free. Pay operators, for ex ample, could not in most cases telecast movies more than two years old; or series-type shows with continuing casts; or the latest of any sports event that had been telecast in the past two years. That rule would bar pay TV from scheduling such potentially profitable events as the World Series or the Super Bowl-or most sports, for that matter. A possible exception: home-town pro football games, now blacked...