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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light-years away. And because presumably no spaceship-or any matter-can travel at or beyond the velocity of light, which is the universal speed limit according to the Einstein theory of relativity, it would take considerably longer than 4.3 light-years to reach the earth from its nearest stellar neighbor. At the 17,500 m.p.h. that astronauts travel, it would take nearly 170,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A FRESH LOOK AT FLYING SAUCERS | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...University backed out of two projects in 1961 and 1963 because of failure to reach a similar agreement on future land...

Author: By William Woodward, | Title: Harvard May Block City Renewal Funds | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

Harvard may block a recently announced Cambridge proposal to solicit Federal urban renewal funds for Harvard Square if the University cannot reach an agreement with the City on the long-term use of Harvard land in the Square...

Author: By William Woodward, | Title: Harvard May Block City Renewal Funds | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

...whole village. Then the elephant goes to a water hole and drinks gallons of water. The result: its stomach immediately becomes a huge still in which the fruit ferments and forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more fruit. Each year the park's rangers have to shoot about 30 elephants who become mean drunks, and tests of their blood show a staggering alcoholic content. Most of the elephants go away to sleep off their hangovers, but they always come back for more. Unmindful of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africana: Elephants on a Binge | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

This "juvenile hormone" is needed in the early stage of growth, but must be absent later for the insect to metamorphose. If this hormone is artificially forced on the but, it will not reach sexual maturity...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Dr. Williams' Licekiller Ends an Insecticide Era | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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