Word: experimenters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINCE the party cannot change the people," Alexander Dubček once said, "it must itself change." One year ago this week, Dubček's historic attempt to guide Czechoslovakia's Communist Party in the direction of that change was suddenly and brutally undone. On a quiet...
Only a handful of people attended last Friday's "Do your thing" experiment in informal entertainment, and as a result, the other two "things" scheduled have been cancelled.
The originator of the experiment, associate social director John L. Tolleson said the failure "only proved that Summer School students here must fit into one of the following categories on Friday nights in August: already have something to do, have gone to the Cape or elsewhere, are studying or have...
A second Apollo experiment also ran into difficulty. Astronomers at the McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Calif., and the Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, were unable to locate the lunar reflector, an arrangement of 100 prisms that they hoped would reflect laser beams...
The moon walk itself raised almost as many questions as it answered. "They had more mobility and they were able to move faster with greater ease than some of us expected," said Gilruth. "They only used about half to a third of the oxygen and water that we might have...