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Shortly after the successful touchdown, Soviet ground controllers performed a number of checks to determine the spacecraft's exact orientation and location on the moon-information vital for calculating Luna 16's correct homeward course. Then came the main business of the mission. On a signal from earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Luna First | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

The other gang of 200 has extorted an estimated $50,000 during the past six months. Its leader is Nguyen Ro, 33, a one-legged former master sergeant, who earned 20 medals as a soldier. "All my life has been devoted to fighting the enemy," he says. "When I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Rage of the Wounded | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

She walks the arena stage in twisting little circles, like a caged animal. Not a really wild animal, but a poorly domesticated one-petulant rather than fierce, caught in a thicket of heavy-legged furniture. At one moment of electric outrage, she turns her back to the audience, raises clenched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Private Masterpiece | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

An inexperienced two-legged friend. You, mink and sable, Strip the traps from the trail, so you don't harm your soul.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: A Depot of Metaphors | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

Sam, who did not know Spanish, sat cross-legged on the wrecked cama nodding. To Merilee he said. "Will you be my esposo?"

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

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