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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glynn Lunney. "The spacesuits are bulkier, the Fiberglas itches like hell, and the seat belts are difficult to cinch down because they are so stiff. But you are seeing a spacecraft several hundred percent improved." Apollo's new safety devices, and a string of successful shots during the past year, have partially restored NASA's confidence. Four unmanned Apollo spacecraft have now flown without serious mishap, two of them atop the mighty rocket Saturn...
...rigorous "wilderness course," declares the school's president, Ronald C. Nairn, is that "man is a part of nature. Millions of years of his evolutionary history are rooted in life as a hunter, a nomad, an adventurer. Deep facets of personality and emotional needs are tied to his past Urban industrial society increasingly fails to meet these needs." gritty native spirt is only one part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences. The curriculum concentrates...
...faculty. Support from Arizona citizens has been building as well; last year, Barry Goldwater donated his personal library to the college At Prescott, says President Nairn, who served as a New Zealand fighter pilot during World War II and holds a Ph. D. from Yale, "we are taking our past concepts of learning and giving them a new focus by which we can come close to the objective of that ancient Chinese aphorism: To have roots but to soar like an eagle...
...Glass Booth asks playgoers to share guilt for the massacre of the Jews. The Great White Hope asks playgoers to share guilt for the oppression of the Negro. Both are dramas of contrition with little internal life; they would scarcely stir, except for the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, past history, and the emotional sympathies of the already converted. For the price of a mea culpa, the audience is made to feel good by feeling...
Piling Up Trouble. Citroën has long been heading toward a classic industrial disaster. Founded by a flamboyant Parisian named Andre Citroën in 1919, the company has been controlled for the past 30 years by the Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot...