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Just before dawn one morning last week, a 98-ft. Atlas-Able rocket rose majestically from its launching pad and for 68 seconds cut a brilliant, steady swath through the Florida sky. Then, suddenly, the rocket's nose lurched, and an instant later a red-orange mushroom blast shattered the sixth U.S. attempt to put a paddle-wheel satellite in orbit around the moon. If the feat had succeeded, it would have rivaled even the Russian successes of hitting the moon and photographing its backside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Devil Moon | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Fear of Federally controlled schools has cut a devastating swath through efforts to provide adequate support for education. Every real issue has bowed before a resurrection of the emotion-laden mythos of local independence...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: School Without Thought | 11/4/1960 | See Source »

...potentates around the globe. Last week Star readers might have wondered whether they were in for a new era of eccentric journalism: as new boss of the Star's news-gathering staff, the paper named Dr. (of Divinity) Charles B. Templeton, 44, who once cut a wide swath in Canada and the U.S. as a boy-wonder evangelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Evangelist to Editor | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...East African protectorate, His Majesty agreed with newsmen that the morning was quite chilly, then jovially parted his robe to disclose a suit of long underwear. Dr. Bunche will plot George's U.S. itinerary, which will incorporate the King's wish to view a broad swath of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Dinosaur's Dinner. At times, tiring of the earth's-end theme, Clarke pulls a switch, reminds his readers that mankind, whose veins run with the blood of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, is the more likely aggressor, could cut a dreadful swath through the tentacles, feathers and eyestalks of the galaxy's gentle people. But the best story in Across the Sea of Stars uses the solar system's most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape from Gravity | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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