Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dawkins writes, there is this civilization 200 light years away. They want to spread their culture to distant worlds. So they assemble everything they want to say into one huge unbroken message, and then broadcast it out into space. The message is picked up by this huge computer on Earth which proceeds to take over the world and restructure society to accord with the outer-space radio message...
...magazine has followed last year's much-vaunted "Harvard on the Way Down?" by Nelson Aldrich with an article on Radcliffe by Diana Trilling, called "Daughters of the Middle Class." Although the coincidence is probably accidental, Trilling's title underlines Harper's probable reasons for giving so much space to an institution whose internal evolution cannot concern a particularly large audience: Harper's is geared to the educated middle class of the Northeast, and its readers include enough alumni to make such articles profitable...
Much of our reporting came from Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, who has long covered developments in aviation and space for TIME. To this assignment Hannifin brought some particularly apt qualifications; he is not only an associate member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators, which promotes improved crash-probe techniques, but also a pilot of what he describes as the "Lindbergh baby" generation, with nearly 2,500 hours of flying time which he has accumulated over the past 27 years in craft ranging from modern jet interceptors to his own classic Ercoupe and a Cessna 182 that he shares with...
...send his files throughout the week to New York, where Senior Writer Ed Magnuson and Associate Editor James Atwater wrote this week's cover stories. But he did manage to take time out at least one evening for a dinner engagement: the Goddard memorial banquet of the National Space Club, which was held in Washington and which presented its 1977 Press Award to Hannifin for "outstanding reporting in covering the U.S. aerospace program...
These words, spoken last week by Frank Press, echo statements that he has been making for nearly two decades as an adviser to Government agencies on subjects ranging from space missions to earthquake prediction. As head of the department of earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Press has always had some clout in Washington. But not as much as he will soon have with the Carter Administration. The President has named Press, 52, his science adviser, and by doing so revealed the depth of his own commitment to arms control; Press, in addition to his other...