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Word: lightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons have a far greater range and striking power than the old. Simple to operate and light enough to carry from place to place, they give the enemy what amounts to a mobile long-range artillery that he can use to strike at will at practically any target in South Viet Nam. Before, the Communists were forced to creep within a mile or so of their target in order to hit it with mortar fire, thus exposing themselves to detection by allied patrols. Now, using their new weaponry, they can send shells crashing into U.S. bases from as far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Enemy's New Weapons | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Breathtaking Regularity. Getting a good fix on one of the signals, the astronomers calculated that it came from an object no more than 4,000 miles in diameter-about half the size of the earth-that was no more than a neighborly 200 light-years away. The signals occurred with breathtaking regularity, one every 1.337 seconds. "Our first thought," says Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle, director of the Mullard Observatory, "was that this was another intelligence trying to contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Fantastic Signals from Space | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Daily Journal. Those who stuck it out had little time to loaf. Although the reading list was relatively light, each work was arduously aired at twice-weekly lectures attended by the entire staff and student body. Students voiced their own views at weekly seminars-one guided by a professor, one by a student chairman. All had to complete a paper every two weeks on their latest study, go over it in private tutorials with a professor, also keep a running daily journal of their personal reaction to their studies. The faculty worked just as hard: it met before each lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professors: Intellectual Immersion at Berkeley | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Died. Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation of Germany, Litchfield was dean of Cornell's business school in 1955 when Pitt chose him as chancellor; in no time, he had kicked off a $126 million program to expand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 15, 1968 | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Minnesotan Robert Ely, 41, winner of the N.B.A. for his second book of verse, The Light Around the Body, harked back not to Byron or Donne but to celebrated atrocities of the past. "I am uneasy at a ceremony emphasizing our current high state of culture," said Bly. "It turns out that we can put down a revolution as well as the Russians in Budapest, we can destroy a town as well as the Germans did at Lidice, all with our famous unconcern." For his hyperbole-the kind of thing that Vladimir Nabokov calls poshlost-Bly drew some expected cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: Poets & Protesters | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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