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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orbiting itself. I readied myself for it. I faced transition from a condition of weightlessness to new and perhaps even greater overloads. I also faced tremendous heating of the ship's outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship III, which on Dec. 1, 1960, burned up with its cargo of two dogs. The fate of Pchelka and Mushka had a bitterish taste. Would all systems work normally? Did some unforeseen peril await...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Yuri's Flaming Descent | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...negligible dialogue and virtually no plot. A frustrated husband makes dream-sequence love to the great volupines of history, even playing lava boy to a cave woman. From Delilah to Pocahontas, however, they all seem to have been rented from the same dairy. Says Producer Edward E. Paramore III: "It beat Ten Commandments by $500, opening night in San Pedro. You're not going to get our kind of success on nudes alone. Naked girls are a glut on the market. What makes it a hit is that it's really a harmless, funny picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Nudeniks | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

Adjoining the Park St. Church is the Old Granary Burial Ground, where lie many of the heroes of the struggle against George III, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and James Otis. The Old South Meeting House and the Old State House on Washington St. also figured significantly in the prerevolutionary period and exhibit the evidences of colonial insurrection. Faneuil Hall, in Faneuil Square, is worth visiting both for the startling variety of produce markets which surround it, and for its historical interest as the scene of innumerable rabble-rousing tirades against the British by such stalwarts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON | 6/21/1961 | See Source »

...George V (five times) was succeeded by George VI (four covers) and now Elizabeth II (five times), not to mention other members of the family, such as the Duke of Windsor and Margaret. Similarly, Belgium's royal family progresses from Albert in 1928 to Son Leopold III in 1937 and on to Grandson Baudouin. On the other hand, the Iranian dynasty, which is younger than TIME, began with a soldier named Reza Shah Pahlevi, who made TIME'S cover three times and was succeeded by his son, the present Shah, who has made it twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...athletic organizations studied, the crews and varsity football, placed nobody in Group I--but neither did the CRIMSON and the Student Council. The athletes had a smaller percentage of their students in Group II, but they had essentially the same percentage displacement (approximately 75 per cent) in Groups III, IV, and V, as did the others, including the Corporation, Overseers and Alumni Directors; the University Choir and Glee Club; and the whole undergraduate body in addition to the CRIMSON and Council...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Myth of the 'Jock' and Intellectual Snobbery | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

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