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...glittered like tiny bright mirrors. "I noticed them in six or eight places," Armstrong explained, "always in the same kind of place-at the bottom of a crater." Last week Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold offered a dramatic explanation. The moon, he says, may have been scorched by a huge flare-up of heat and light within the solar system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Glazing the Moon | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...flare-up will doubtless give a new sense of urgency to Russia's campaign of military preparedness along the Sino-Soviet border. The campaign began some time ago, but has become much more evident since the Ussuri fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHERE RUSSIA AND CHINA COLLIDE | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...details, their styles flare away to separate poles, Glazier calls Kaplan, "Kaplan." Kaplan calls Glazier "Ken." Together they forged a coordinated student government attack on University problems for the first time in a decade...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Steve Kaplan Ken Glazier | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...details, their styles flare away to separate poles. Glazier calls Kaplan, "Kaplan." Kaplan calls Glazier...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Steve Kaplan Ken Glazier | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...Apollo flight, they will feed information into a space environment console in Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, where physicists and medical men will keep a constant vigil. In addition, Pioneer, Vela and other patrolling satellites will report any changes in solar radiation. Should SPAN report a suspicious-looking flare during the Apollo mission at the same time the satellites signal a corresponding increase in high-energy proton radiation, the astronauts in the vulnerable lunar module would be ordered back to the command module forthwith. They should need no more than four hours-well before the deadly mainstream of protons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Prodigal Sun | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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