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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They have had more than 120 hours of instruction from NASA geologists, and they have practiced collecting rock and soil samples in lunarlike terrain such as the Grand Canyon, California's Medicine Lake highlands, the Arizona meteorite crater, the arctic wastelands of Iceland, and Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Even their on-the-spot descriptions of the moon, to be transmitted instantaneously by radio to earth, should be of substantial value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON: SECRETS TO BE FOUND | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

South Viet Nam's true intellectual elite consists of no more than a few thousand people. Its members include doctors, lawyers, journalists, Buddhist monks, professors, artists, students and occasional businessmen. Some, like Lau, own property, but most live modestly on monthly incomes that range from $80 to $600. They are inveterate organization joiners. Being a member of the alumni associations of the Lycée Petrus Ky or the Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, both in Saigon, is a mark of special distinction among the elite. There are other ties of common background. Many intellectuals fled the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Dissident Intellectuals | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...song goes on, machines are doing all of man's work for him by 5555. artificial insemination is common place by 6565, and a thousand years later God is thinking maybe it's time for Judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop: Futuristic Nostalgia | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Knorr, confidently discussed "The Approaching Peace of a Thousand Years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: Witnessing the End | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: Witnessing the End | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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