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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of a good and powerful thing. By the time you are facing "Mount Williamstown, from Munzana" (1944); on the last wall of prints, you hardly register the now-familiar enormities around you. You almost pass by untouched, but a piercing ray of sunlight glints off the center middle ground. You look again at the terrifying array of boulders marching out at you. There is a start of recognition...

Author: By Margaret A. Byer, | Title: Ansel Adams | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

Later this summer the Hospital will break ground on the $9.5 million research building. In addition to the present NIH grant, the Hospital received $2,470,000 in an earlier grant from the NIH last January. The rest of the money required for construction comes from individuals, corporations, and foundations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hospital Obtains $2 Million From Health Institute | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

...disbanded its cavalry. When it came time to film the 1?-mile charge, many of the horses could barely finish. As for the soldiers, they just kept smiling broadly-at the camera. And when they were called upon to fall in battle, they spoiled everything by rolling on the ground and laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tom Jones Meets Goldfinger | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...than at the other. It is 6 ft. long, 4| ft. wide, 21 ft. deep. Sheathed in a Johnson-designed nylon heat shield for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, the craft is equipped with a swivel-mounted retrorocket, attitude-control jets, a transponder for ground control, a built-in oxygen supply, a parachute and a survival kit. Johnson envisions a typical Apollo spacecraft as carrying three such lifeboats in its service mod ule or equipment section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Lifeboats for Astronauts | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...altitude of 50,000 ft., a bar-ostatically-triggered drogue parachute is released. In turn, the craft's main parachute is pulled open, and the astronaut descends, feet first, at 15 ft. per sec.-slow enough for a safe landing on either water or solid ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Lifeboats for Astronauts | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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