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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest solar scope six years ago, a massive investigation had to be made merely to find where to place the monster. Astronomers roamed the U.S.; rockets were fired aloft to check on atmospheric conditions; scores of aerial maps were made before the NSF settled on 6,875-ft. Kitt Peak in Arizona. The peak's flat top, high in the clear air, is well above hot desert breezes, but not so high that ice will become a problem. And above it the atmosphere is relatively free of dust and clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Bigger & Brighter | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Hotel Plaza-a last-minute replacement for ailing Singer Katyna Ranieri. The Plaza usually prefers its singers female and sophisticated-Hildegarde, say, or Eartha Kitt-but Stuarti was a hit from the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thatza My Boy | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Born. To Eartha Kitt, 33, slinky Negro songstress who outraged proper Britons by openly alluding to her pregnancy during a recent London TV performance (TIME, Aug. 25), and William McDonald, 31, her white husband: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1961 | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...London TV studio, Enceinte Terrible Eartha Kitt, 33. slunk before the cameras in a gown considerably more billowy than her wonted tattoo-tight attire, but not billowy enough to conceal her six-month condition. Called upon to mount a stool for one of her numbers, the sultry South Carolina songstress found it a struggle, outraged Britain's myriad Mrs. Grundys (and snarled network telephone switchboards with carping calls) by chuckling: "Okay, Junior, this is the last engagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...European concert tour that will last until Christmas, America's missing lynx, Eartha Kitt, swung into England last week with Husband Bill McDonald. While her real-estate-dealing spouse of three months shuffled his feet, Eartha announced that she was looking forward to eventually having a larger family. "A boy and a girl would be fine. I think children are the major concern of an interracial marriage, but if you bring them up correctly, they will learn to live with the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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