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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough's seamen. But if a spaceshipload of them were to blast off tomorrow, they could not predict their landing point within thousands of miles. Such uncertainty could be disastrous, and Physicist F. E. Lowther of General Electric Co. hopes to do something about it. He is starting his campaign with an effort to correct that old reliable constant of physics: the speed of light (now calculated at 186,282 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Measuring the Universe | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

CHARLES C. LOWTHER Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...George VI and Elizabeth II, charged that in 1955, while he was recovering in an iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell of warm embraces on the Blue Landing of the great staircase of Ingestre Hall and meetings in the White Room and the Bird Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Two Minuses Equal Plus | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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