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Saturday, December 17 MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Scrooge by the nearsighted Magoo in a comic animation of the Dickens classic.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Nearsighted Satellites. Sagan's assumption is based on a study of photographs transmitted by NASA's weather-watching Nimbus and Tiros satellites. Those pictures were taken from as close as several hundred miles above the Earth and are somewhat clearer than the Mariner shots, which could not distinguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Is There Life on Mars --or Earth? | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Hunters have a habit of excusing the rhino's evil temper (he's nearsighted) and the rogue elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Shark-Eating Men | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

Though Fleming insists that his department keeps a close eye on history departments at other universities throughout the Western Hemisphere in an effort to discover potential Harvard teachers, either he is nearsighted, or else Harvard University is uniquely adept at training scholars. Of the 24 tenured men, eight went to...

Author: By Stephen Bello, | Title: Tenure and the History Department | 5/4/1965 | See Source »

An even greater field for expansion lies in the area of business phones, which already account for fully half of A.T.&T.'s revenues. The company's new pushbutton Touch-Tone, which reduces the average "dialing" time from nine to four seconds, will make every business phone a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Bell Is Ringing | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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