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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Threatening Thimble. So far, the total quantity made in Russia, the U.S. and Britain would fill little more than a thimble. But researchers are busily making more, and the process is surprisingly simple. A vacuum is created in a bowl that contains tiny glass capillary tubes; water vapor is introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unnatural Water | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Physicist Frank Donahoe of Pennsylvania's Wilkes College, for one, thinks that polywater could pose a threat to all life. Once it is let loose, the stuff might propagate itself, feeding on natural water. The proliferation of such a dense, inert liquid, warns Donahoe, could stop all life processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unnatural Water | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Was the Chairman prescient? Could he have anticipated by more than four decades an ingenious scheme just conceived by University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone? If Mao had carried his maxim a little farther, says Stone in a tongue-in-cheek letter to Geotimes, China could have threatened distant enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Leap Downward | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

If at a given moment, says Stone, all 750 million Chinese obeyed a command to jump from 6½-ft. platforms, they could constitute a "geophysical weapon." How? Assuming that the average Chinese weighs 110 lbs., he calculates, the energy released by this great leap downward would be equivalent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Leap Downward | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Died. Eric Portman, 66, commanding figure of British stage and screen for nearly half a century; in Cornwall, England. Broodingly handsome, Portman starred at the Old Vic as early as 1927, and during his career appeared in more than 100 British productions. Americans know him best for his Broadway roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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