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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slice more deeply through the atmosphere before it slows down, giving it greater protection against defensive missiles fired from the ground. Better still, it is comparatively light: the G.E. ablating nose cone used on the "longfellow'' Atlas fired May 20 from Florida to the Indian Ocean probably played an important part in the missile's being light enough to attain its 9,000-mile range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back from Space | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...Ocean & Rail. Air fares are 8% higher than last year for first class ($900 New York to London round trip); up also are economy flights ($486 New York-London round trip). Planes are virtually booked solid until July 15. Cheapest scheduled flights are on Icelandic Airlines DC-45 and -6s between New York and London ($405.20 round trip). Other bargains: round-trip tickets that allow unlimited stops en route. With a jet flight from New York to Rome on a round-trip economy ticket ($620.30), a tourist can choose stops in 24 cities in eleven countries. Charter flights that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURIST EUROPE 1960: A Guide to Prices & PIaces | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...author, the book is a riddle: How was he alone able to survive? He feels that it cannot have been merely that he was 27 and healthy. He writes of the sea with seamanlike skill, but navigates uncertainly in his own inner ocean, talks of an obsessive conviction that the face of a dying raftmate was that of Christ, and believes that the man's prophecy of rescue sustained him. The reader cannot tell whether Cooke's belief came from inspiration or hallucination, or whether this matters. The only conclusion is that some men, for some reason, cling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Survivor | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...English folklore, the flow of a man's blood was supposed to be governed, like the ocean tides, by the phases of the moon. Modern medicine, of course, only chuckles at such claptrap. But now a Florida eye, ear, nose and throat specialist has gathered scientific evidence suggesting that there may be something to the old belief after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & the Moon | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Alfven points out in Britain's New Scientist that ordinary hydrodynamics rules only in tiny crannies of the universe, such as the earth's ocean and the lower levels of the earth's atmosphere. The great bulk of the universe, including the stars and most of the matter between them, is made of ionized gases whose atoms have electric charges caused by the effects of heat or radiation. Unlike the earth's familiar water and air, most of whose atoms are electrically neutral, ionized gases are influenced by the magnetic fields that pervade space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning ... | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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