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TIME began watching the moon in its third issue, March 17, 1923, with an item reporting on a "somewhat new theory" to the effect that "the satellite was formed by a coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation." This theory is still in good repute. In the intervening decades TIME has followed man's restless reach for the moon, including the simple experiment of a Princeton student who, 35 years before Ranger VII, took lunar pictures by rigging a movie camera to a telescope. Our moon chronicle continued to note many milestones: the U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...collapse came in the Chamber of Deputies over a negligible item in the budget-the provision of $238,000 in aid to private schools, which are mostly Roman Catholic. The Socialists, led by Veteran Pietro Nenni and, as always, anticlerical, abstained. But this time they were joined in their abstention by an odd lot of Communists, Liberals, Monarchists and Neo-Fascists. Even worse for Moro, at least ten of his own Christian Democratic Deputies left the chamber before the roll call. As a result, the government fell four short of a majority...
...Greenwich Village's cowhide standard will still raise eyebrows north of 59th Street; only on very special feet will they get by a doorman with class or a headwaiter with vision. But the introduction of the spaghetti strap and the low, more graceful heel has turned a little item into big business, earned fashion's acclaim and the blessings of women everywhere who have spent all the summers of their lives struggling into nylon stockings and old-style, cover-up pumps-all for the sticky sake of decency...
...later denied that he had meant it to be used against Barry. A Good Housekeeping writer said he had been told by Goldwater's wife Peggy that Barry had suffered nervous breakdowns, due to business pressures, twice in the late 1930s. Columnist Drew Pearson picked up the item and with his characteristic kind of punch, raised the question of whether Goldwater was mentally stable enough to be President. Goldwater's longtime physician denied that Barry had ever suffered any such breakdown. Goldwater himself simply pointed to his record as a World War II pilot and his present rank...
...part fraudville and part vaudeville, and the vaudeville is quite good. A skillful little dog stands on one paw on its master's outstretched thumb. A girl spins and whirls in the middle of a rope whose ends are held in the teeth of two men. The sexiest item of the evening is a stripteasing marionette, who bumps, grinds, twists, and removes her bra to reveal the best shape on the hot side of the footlights. Patachou, the evening's headliner, is a once-great stylist who still has a touch of Piaf-but not enough...