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Seated inside his 11-ft.-tall brainchild, Mechanical Engineer Ralph Mosher moved his legs and arms and sent the 3,000-lb., four-legged mastodon lumbering across the floor at General Electric's Schenectady plant. As Mosher flexed his arms, the monster climbed a stack of heavy timbers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Debut of a Metal Giant | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Death Throes. To a pounding, throbbing cacophony of percussion and the shrill tooting of a wooden flute, dancers in extravagant costumes celebrate legendary rituals, their stiff-legged gyrations seeming, like some ancient idol, only half alive. Dancer Jorge Tyller, a Yaqui Indian, reenacts with awesome control the death throes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Ballet: High-Class Hybrids | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Tension between the two men keeps Blood Knot from being a mawkish paean to poverty. John Dullaghan, who played Morris off-Broadway, mumbles like a flat-car hobo that he was forced to come back to Zachariah from his guilt at trying to pass. With a frog-legged squat and...

Author: By Ruth N. Glushein, | Title: The Blood Knot | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

On the misty horizon, 51 miles off shore, 100 oil workers struggled desperately on Union Oil Co.'s 150-ft.-high Platform A, beneath which oil was leaking steadily from a fissure in the ocean floor. Barges carrying 15,000 barrels of sealant were towed to the platform, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: ENVIRONMENT: TRAGEDY IN OIL | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Now NASA's name ban is apparently being subverted. Without the knowledge of NASA headquarters in Washington, astronauts and technicians training for the forthcoming Apollo 9 mission (Feb. 28) began substituting descriptive nicknames for the unwieldy jargon prescribed for their spacecraft. The command and service modules-the joined conical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Spider and the Gumdrop | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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