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...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Naturalist-Author Joseph Wood Krutch is the guide for a trip through the Grand Canyon starting at the rim, taking a ride down the Colorado River rapids and stopping for a visit with the Havasupai Indians. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jun. 17, 1966 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...littered with pebbles as small as one-eighth of an inch in diameter and rocks that were more than a foot across. The terrain was pocked by an occasional small crater, and one picture clearly showed a hump on the horizon that is believed to be either a crater rim or a low hill. A view of one of Surveyor's feet showed that its impact had dented the surface a few inches, indicating to some scientists that the site had the consistency of a terrestrial ocean beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Payoff Was Perfection | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

Whatever their leaders may say in a political vein about the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, the non-Communist countries of Asia are catching a beneficial economic fallout from American involvement in the fighting there. The need for bases, manpower and supplies is affecting economies all around the rim of the battle area. South Korea expects trade with Viet Nam to increase from $16 million last year to $70 million this year. Taiwan's dealings with Viet Nam, which totaled $40 million last year and represented 9% of all exports, may reach $55 million this year. Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Fallout | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...Parkes, Australia, 210-ft. dish antenna toward the source, known only as 3C 273,* Hazard's group recorded the precise time that its signals were eclipsed, or blotted out, by the sharp leading edge of the passing moon and the time when they reappeared from behind its trailing rim. Because the position of the moon can be accurately calculated for any given time, the Australians' "lunar occultation gave them an accurate position of the elusive radio source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Man on the Mountain | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...wide. The lunar view suggested to University of Arizona Astronomer Gerald Kuiper that Luna 9 was probably resting on the floor of a small crater, that the rocks were only about a foot high, and that the horizon in the picture was actually formed by the crater's rim, apparently less than a mile away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Lunar Landscape | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

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