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The Unseen Face. The probe will be fired roughly eastward to get the added throw of earth's eastward spin, and its course will be an elongated S in the plane set by the moon's 27-day easterly revolution around the earth. The reverse in the curve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

The odds against success are great.They begin on the ground, where the Thor rocket has yet to prove its reliability. The probe should be launched only during the four days of the month when the moon is in the best position for tracking; if the rocket fizzles on the launching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

As an R.N. assisting in the delivery room, I am always profoundly impressed at the miracle of life. After reading your article, "The Secret of Life," I am even more profoundly amazed that the geneticists can seriously entertain the theory of chance rendezvous of DNA ultimately producing the complex human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Bisset had six years in sail, scrambling out on the swaying yards to clew up a topgallant sail, growing calluses on his knees from holystoning the wooden decks with "Bibles" (big stones) and "prayer books" (little ones). Though experiences in a square-rigger would seem to be of small use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lee Rail Under | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

This method of building the commercial into the drama is the most distinctive feature of television in Japan, a nation rapidly becoming as TV-obsessed as the U.S. In a soap opera, A Comic Housemaid, the heroine habitually complains of a racking headache in midscene, gulps down an Arakawa Drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Land of the Rising Plug | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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