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...first spaceman will be anything but a free soul. Swathed like a mummy in a cumbersome, confining space suit and strapped firmly to a couch, he will be able to perform only the simplest of manual tasks during his tour around the earth. His real job: to act as a human guinea pig for astrophysiologists, supply information on human behavior in the alien environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MAN IN SPACE | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...dictum. Red China's peasants in 1959 reduced the amount of land they sowed by nearly 10%, set out to make up for it by deep plowing and heavy fertilization. But in his theorizing. Mao had forgotten that China is desperately short of chemical fertilizers and even the simplest agricultural tools. Result was that although Peking's grain production target for 1960 is 300 million tons. China will be lucky to produce two-thirds that much. Admits the People's Daily: "If this year's summer harvest equals that of 1959 or is a little bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Forward in Reverse | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday," hypnotize with their own heavy-lidded evocation of sleep. He packed worlds into monosyllables. "To be or not to be" is man's largest question put in man's smallest and simplest words. Once uttered, they expand to fill all the space in the human mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Your May 2 article on and pictures of Artists Frankenthaler, Hartigan and Mitchell are the straws that finally cracked my aching back. No one would pay money to hear a the simplest techniques of pictorial representation be given so much attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...tells it how to develop into a particular sort of creature, ranging from a bacterium to a man. In the case of higher animals, the cell's instructions are carried by long, coiled-up molecules of DXA (deoxyribonucleic acid). In the instance of some viruses, which are the simplest of organisms, the code is found in RNA (ribonucleic acid), which is less complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genetic Rosetta Stone | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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