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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's American League raises the obstacles for rationally predicting a pennant finish to an annual high. Every team in the junior, and perenially weaker, loop, has so many holes to fill that of the five teams equally justified to finish second, none should be able to win. That is why the overwhelming consensus leans toward Baltimore: the Orioles won last year, so memory over-rides the rebellion of reason at the thought of their triumphing...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 4/12/1967 | See Source »

...powered by a hidden ¼-h.p. motor whose reduction shaft is embedded be low its 8-ft.-high triangular base. In mathematical terms, Infinity is based on the Möbius strip, named for the 19th century German mathematician A. F. Möbius. It consists of a loop twisted on itself so that it contains one continuous edge and one plane. As the great form revolved majestically for the first time last week, the early spring sun glinted off its evolving planes, creating an impression of perpetual motion, a release of boundless and elemental energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Infinity in Eight Minutes | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...State for Health. He replaces Sushila Nayar, a cheerful but backward-looking spinster who had never shown any enthusiasm for birth control programs and, in fact, sometimes did not even bother to spend her department's allocated budget. Chandrasekhar, who plans to emphasize the use of the loop contraceptive for women, will enforce an all-out program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency to the job. He is Jagjivan Ram, 58, the leader of India's 65 million "untouch ables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Accent on Pragmatics | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...additional duodenum is not yet connected directly to the digestive tract. It will be hooked into a loop of the small bowel in about a month if the transplant remains healthy. So far, the transplanted kidney has effectively filtered the patient's blood and made urine; the pancreatic-duodenal graft has done its work so well that she has needed no insulin since her surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Triple Transplant | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...strong demurrer. To them, the commitment of man to the moon is essential. Says Chris Kraft, director of NASA Flight Operations: "After the canned man and the monkey flights, we found that by adding a man, you've added a tremendous tool. We now have man in the loop-and that's made the difference." Without a man on board a spacecraft, there is no judgment aloft, no freedom of choice, no chance to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, less chance than ever of getting past unforeseen trouble. Ranger's pictures of the moon, spectacular though they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY SHOULD MAN GO TO THE MOON? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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