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...Apollo astronauts. Two of the three-mile by five-mile elliptical landing zones are in the Ocean of Storms on the west side of the visible face of the moon, one in the appropriately named Central Bay and two in the easterly Sea of Tranquillity. All are relatively smooth and unobstructed, giving the astronauts a good chance of selecting a spot that is free of boulders, ridges or rifts that could endanger the landing of the lunar module...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Narrowing the Choice | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

During the second frame, the smooth-passing Blue and White held Harvard scoreless. Combining speed and finesse, they hit at 0:20 and outshot the Crimson, 11-7. The game remained deadlocked until Harvard's outburst in the last frame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Top Andys, Take Second in Row | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

...with transplanted hearts followed opposite courses last week. For Philip Blaiberg, 58, in Cape Town, the course was smooth. But at Stanford Medical Center, Mike Kasperak, 54, went from crisis to fatal crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Two Patients | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

Some 3,000 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic, off the northern coast of Florida, the creature peered inquisitively through the dark and murky waters, groping for the ocean bottom. Sweeping its searchlight back and forth like a baleful eye, it spotted a smooth black surface below. Touching down gently, it began to creep along on wheels, stopping occasionally to pick up chunks of black rock with its two 9-ft. arms. Finally, it slowly rose to the surface, its mission accomplished and its curiosity temporarily satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanology: Work Beneath the Waves | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...Harvard student put it differently. "Lowenstein is a politician; he's just too smooth. I don't like it." There are many...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Lowenstein: The Making of a Liberal 1968 | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

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