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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME staffers involved in this week's cover story on astrology, there was no question about how to begin the assignment. They consulted experts and had personal horoscopes cast. Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin, who was born under the sign of Cancer, discovered that he would be working on the project at a time when the aspects of the planets would be largely unfavorable. Researcher Mary Themo, also a Cancer, got the same word. So did Researcher Georgia Harbison, a Gemini...
...Sinkiang runs for much of the way along the majestic peaks of the Tien Shan range of mountains. Late last year, a Japanese tourist persuaded his Intourist guide to allow him a day close to the Soviet side of the border. He saw no troops, nor indeed any sign of unusual military activity, but he returned dazzled by the natural beauty of the area. "The Soviets called it a second Switzerland," he said later, "and it was-so lovely, peaceful and sparsely populated...
...thing is remarkable: none are from Peredelkino, yet each knows all the others by name. How can this be? Are they all, perhaps, from the same factory? Can it be that they sign on for these hours of duty as they do for volunteer police work...
...that since their art is actually a science, its renascence was foreordained. The world, they contend, is just entering the Aquarian Age. The movement of the vernal equinox westward at the rate of about 50 seconds a year is bringing it from 2,000 years in the zodiac's sign of Pisces ?characterized by skepticism and disillusionment?to the next 2,000 in Aquarius, an airy sign that will influence the world toward aspiration and faith. The highly successful Broadway musical Hair, which lists a staff astrologer in the program credits and includes another astrologer, Sally Eaton...
...Cancers were renamed Moonchildren by Righter about ten years ago to dissociate the sign from the disease; Cancer's most influential planet is the moon...