Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Stark Draper, 67, director of the Instrumentation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To solve the problems of navigation, NASA went straight to the nation's leading authority on inertial guidance. The system devised by Draper for Apollo includes telescopes, a sextant, and a computerized inertial reference "platform" that tells astronauts where they are in space, where they are headed and how fast. But how could they be sure that it would work?, the NASA brass wanted to know. "I told them I'd go along and run it myself," recalls Draper. The on-board navigation...
...Cover: a three-dimensional illustration by Dennis Wheeler. The work is a fig leaf with a zipper, revealing two cast members of Oh! Calcutta!, the latest and most explicit example of theater in the nude. To Wheeler, the three elements-the leaf of Eden, the ubiquitous modern mechanism, the stark young bodies -symbolize the erotic renaissance that is the subject of TIME'S story...
...ceremony was as stark as the apparel. Dropping a stick before the cou ple, the pastor pronounced the legal essentials in mod vernacular: "You're married, as long...
Gordonstoun is anything but luxurious. Dormitories are stark and functional. The daily regimen, while it pays due deference to academic achievement, ordains two cold showers a day, student-labor details (Charles, more often than not at first, drew the garbage detail), and plenty of toughening outdoor sports. The Prince was not cosseted. One of his teachers made a point of referring to him as "Charlie-boy," and on the rugby field he was hit hard, often deliberately. He made few close friends. Most boys, afraid of being scorned by their fellows for "sucking up" to Charles, treated him distantly...
...more remote sense, a step toward the planets themselves. Through the first color telecast from space and massive coverage by TV, radio and the press, a worldwide audience vicariously shared the astronauts' excitement and exuberance, the tension and terror, the close-up views of the stark and rugged moonscape. Yet there was a lighthearted air to the whole adventure, complete with jokes, corn pone and two spaceships named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, after the blithe-spirited characters of Charles Schulz's comic strip...