Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE PROGRAM. Nix on has been a vigorous advocate of space exploration...
...space as a target for retrenchment rather than expansion...
...smaller version of the one that former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once envisioned putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries to cross. The guards in turn alert nearby army units, equipped to react quickly with helicopters and powerful searchlights...
Dickey accepted the assignment because the astronauts have a deep sig -nificance for him. "Americans have sunk into the sloth of more and more comfort and convenience," he says. "Many want to give up and see life as essentially miserable. I see life as hardly explored yet. These space guys are showing that miracles can still happen. I was born believing in great efforts...
...COURSE, as the show reminds us, Buck-minster Fuller did get his Plexiglas and steel dome built at Expo. For the Osaka fair Yutaka Murata plans a blow-up amphitheatre of pneumatic PVC tubes, shaped like a locus of horseshoes. Other inflatables pictured include a dome and a space-capsule-shaped weekend house...