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Fortunately, the possibility that living organisms exist on the moon is remote. But if they do exist, and in turn infect the astronauts, the Apollo 11 flight may indeed be an historic event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Is the Earth Safe From Lunar Contamination? | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...There's nothing like a Tommy grin.") and the loud vocal mannerisms of Texas (Where he grew up) infect his speech...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Ghosts of New Hampshire | 4/10/1969 | See Source »

...declared the High School Principals Association of New York City in a recent urgent appeal to Mayor Lindsay and the board of education for help in controlling student unrest. Help is needed; the troubles that have been plaguing college campuses for the past few years are now beginning to infect high schools. Much of the strife seems to be a spontaneous eruption of purely racial antagonism, pitting black students against white students and white teachers, but more and more of it is being deliberately generated by organizations newly formed to press student demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: And Now the High Schools | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first novel that explores the personality of a South American nation while revealing the lives and characters of two strong and complex men. Neither of them fits the good-guy, bad-guy stereotypes that infect not only this literary genre but diplomatic thinking about Latin America in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beamless Lighthouse | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...disease, it develops, is a rampant euphoria that turns New Yorkers off liquor and tranquilizers and into platonically perfect citizens. The most alienated hippie (George Peppard) turns happy, his tacky chick (Mary Tyler Moore) turns chic, and they promptly infect the town with their beatitude. Industry and commerce slow to a standstill until the Government sends an investigator (Dom DeLuise) who restores the right amount of sullen chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What's So Bad About Feeling Good? | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

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