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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mice, Monkeys & Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Whatever the faults of world leadership may have been, we now have "scientific fanatics" at the helm, with the fiendish ambition to propel humans into outer space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...crescent of hills on the Potwar plateau some 700 miles to the north. Uncomfortably sitting on the steaming Arabian Sea with only parched desert behind it, Karachi since 1947 has mushroomed in population from 350,000 to an overcrowded 2,000,000. Government offices are spotted awkwardly in rented space across the sprawling city; water supply is at best uncertain over 60 miles of sand; and in the ill-favored climate, several hundred thousand residents of Karachi have tuberculosis. Only two foreign powers have invested in permanent embassies in Karachi: India and the U.S. (which is building a million-dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Moving Inland | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Quick-witted and active, the Etruscans loved motion in their art, depicted goats bounding, dancers leaping, warriors with lances poised. Mortuary figures gesture and smile; even the sticklike figures (see opposite), which ancient Romans hoarded by the thousands, stride and posture in space like the armature-thin figures of present-day Paris Sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Sorceress with Snake becomes almost as thin as her emblem and as attenuated as a figure by El Greco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures of Etruria | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...days later, the House Space Committee released testimony on the even wider possibilities suggested by Project Argus-the series of bombs exploded late last summer 300 miles above the South Atlantic that sent a shell of charged particles racing round the world. A nuclear bomb exploded over the Indian Ocean, Pentagon officials told the committee, could theoretically disrupt radio communications in Moscow, some 7,000 miles away. Similarly, a blast set off high over the tip of South America could interfere with communications in the Washington area. But to make such interference effective, bombs much larger than Project Argus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bombs on High | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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