Word: marse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The descendant of a slave is about to enter Mars Hill College, bringing to an end 105 years of segregation at the Baptist school in western North Carolina.* Her admittance means something more: the payoff of a novel moral debt.
¶ Harrison Baker, a newcomer from San Francisco who bills himself The Last of the Well Comedians (RCA Victor), is mildly notable because he is totally out of the new-comedian pattern, instead goes back a long way to imitate Bob Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning...
If the U.S. had chosen to use, in an all-out space effort, about one-half of all the money, know-how, skill, materials and enthusiasm that we have put into foreign aid programs, we would not only have a man in space, but we would in all probability have...
But this was no less than most scientists, including Russians, expected of him. The scientific consensus is that during the early stages of space exploration, instruments will be better explorers than heavy, vulnerable humans, who require tons of supplies and equipment to keep them alive. Instruments are smaller, lighter and...
No collection of instruments, for example, could be expected to show interest in a book with platinum leaves inscribed in an unknown language and left by an unknown race in a lunar crevice one million years ago. The moon is unlikely to have such objects on it, but it may...