Word: jans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such extraordinary importance that it demands special treatment. This week, to mark what may well be the most momentous journey since 1492, TIME tells of Apollo 11's odyssey to the moon in a 14-page Special Supplement. It is our second supplement this year. The Jan. 24 issue carried the first, "To Heal a Nation," when Richard Nixon was inaugurated 37th President...
After graduating from Wapakoneta High School, Armstrong won a Navy scholarship to Purdue, the alma mater of three other astronauts (Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, both of whom died in the Apollo launch-pad fire of Jan. 27, 1967, and Eugene Ceroan, a member of the Apollo 10 crew). Called to service in Korea at the end of his sophomore year, Armstrong earned a reputation as a hot pilot and three Air Medals in 78 combat missions. Returning to Purdue, he collected his degree in aeronautical engineering, and a wife, the former Janet E. Shearon of Evanston...
...were hard, bright geometry, the equalizing of old and new materials, the applied and the fine arts. These qualities appeal not so much to the often fickle eye but to the intellect. "He was the original artist in a white coat," says the Museum of Contemporary Art's Jan van der Marck, "one of the first to place art in a laboratory situation...
Sacred Outsiders. Even without the complaints of the rebels, the bishops heard some disturbing news about the state of Europe's lower clergy from a poll that had been taken to help in their deliberations. Dutch Monsignor Jan Dellepoort reported that in every European nation priests felt like "sacred outsiders, estranged from society." Many were undergoing grave crises of conscience over the wisdom or necessity of celibacy. The bishops were also aware of figures that the Vatican had confirmed a week earlier: in 1968 alone, 2,263 priests had requested release from the obligation of celibacy...
This year, two movies about black rebellion have imitated film classics of the Irish revolution. Up Tight (TIME, Jan. 3) was based on The Informer; The Lost Man is a darkened copy of Odd Man Out. The transatlantic temptation is all too understandable, for as a French revolutionist observed, "The poor are the Negroes of Europe." Nonetheless, the Irish fiction grew from a native soul and soil. The Lost Man is a legitimate and anguished cry that suffers in translation...