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...space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel. "In all the history of mankind," Sagan writes, "there will be only one generation that will be first to explore the Solar System, one generation for which, in childhood, the planets are distant and indistinct discs moving through the night sky, and for which, in old age, the planets are places, diverse new worlds in the course of exploration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spaced Out | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...problems is more repression. In his annual year-end TV address to the people, el Caudillo went out of his way to scotch rumors that he himself might retire. "Spain has always counted on my dedication, which will not be failing," said Franco, who betrayed his age in slurred, indistinct words. "My entire life has been, is and will be in the service of the Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Franco's Gray Men | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...reasons given in yesterday's editorial for a bill to compel testimony before Congressional committees was that: as long as witnesses kept the real extent of Communist Infiltration indistinct through use of the Fifth Amendment, such infiltration could be magnified by cheap politicians. The latest McCarthy-Furry affair is a timely example. McCarthy stated, that, in closed hearings, Furry refused to testify about radar espionage and Indoctrination of students. With this as a springboard, he could call the University "a smelly mess," where members of the Communist Party are currently on the faculty, feeding students "Communist philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy: Put Up Or Shut Up | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...image; Shadowy and indistinct, yet within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystic at Work | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...Indistinct and shadowy, yet within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystic at Work | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

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