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Whoops. Pioneer's destination was the skirt of the moon's gravitational field. Only during three days of each month-and within that period, only during 18 fleeting minutes of each day-were the earth and moon in such relationship to each other that Pioneer, precisely fired and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: A Few Seconds on Infinity | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

For one fleeting moment, driving from his home in Rumson, N.J. to the Jersey Central railroad station at Red Bank, New York Stockbroker Paul Land, 48, was tempted to turn around and spend the sunny day at home. But when Jersey Central's No. 3314 rumbled in at 9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Lousy Way to Die | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Next night, both men were really trying. But Elliott, who had spent more energy in the trials, also had more in reserve. With Oklahoma's Gail Hodgson and California's Don Bowden to pace them through the first three quarters, the two Aussies came into the final lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster & Faster | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

In A Touch of the Sun, his title story, Sansom gives evidence that he is trying to escape the thrall of La Belle Dame Sans Merci-the enchantress who from Keats backwards and forwards has been the patroness of all true romantics. The unattainable, visionary woman dominated Sansom's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Grand Guignoi | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Freeman's poem, in contrast, specifically recognizes the existence of an audience. Certainly the most successful work in this Advocate, it is an hortatory stage whisper to "an audience" accompanied by appropriate rhythmic gestures. The poet succeeds in sharing with his readers some of stagecraft's "dreams," "contrived hallucinations" through...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

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