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Although diffused sunlight may have obscured the beams from East Coast stations, the two Western beams were recorded by Surveyor's camera. To make certain that the dots were indeed Alley's lasers and not transmission static, scientists turned the beams on and off, while Surveyor snapped away. On the sequence of Surveyor shots that resulted, the dots obediently appeared and disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Optics: Lasers to the Moon | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

Every frame is dominated by the dizzying North African heat; with blinding sunlight and sweat-drenched bodies, Visconti comes close to prostrating his audience as he builds Meursault's unexpected, meaningless murder of an Arab on the beach. It is stifling, too, in the courtroom where Meursault is condemned, as much for his disengagement from society's proprieties and his refusal to pretend pieties he does not feel as for the crime itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Stranger | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

Find the right sport to hang a fragile abstract painting (18 x 18) against a wall, out of direct sunlight, not in a dining hall. It must be in a Harvard building, in a secure public place, other than the Carpenter Center Auditorium or Student Lounge at William James. Suitable prize. Henry Berg. x2378...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Connoisseurs: Fogg Contest | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted, by the dense atmosphere that it circles around to the dark side of the planet. At dawn, nearly two earth months later, the band would reassemble into a disk that would then slowly rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysics: Venus Revealed | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...surprising Houston team that everybody had overlooked, lost again to U.S.C. before finally posting a win over Wisconsin. Texas? Defeated by both U.S.C. and Texas Tech before venting its frustration on Oklahoma State. Miami? Another two-time loser-to Northwestern and Penn State-before seeing some sunlight against Tulane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Bottoms Up | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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