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Tricky Rendezvous. Other engineering ifs proliferate. The moon project as it is now planned includes a rendezvous in lunar orbit, during which a small spacecraft that has landed on the moon will soar up and mate with a main spacecraft orbiting overhead. The problems involved are all but incredible. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Grandstands Are Emptying For the Race to the Moon | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

The upper stages of the moon rockets will burn liquid hydrogen, and the rocket manufacturers who work with the stuff claim that they will soon have it under control. But no hydrogen-burning engine has yet flown, and skeptics abound who believe that this tricky and touchy fuel will cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Grandstands Are Emptying For the Race to the Moon | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Productivity is one of those tricky measurements that make it sound as if men are working harder and harder, when in fact machines may simply have replaced so many people that the work ers left seem more efficient. At any rate, the economy is enjoying a remarkably prolonged rise in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: The Efficient Economy | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

"Ah do dee-cla-yuh, ah'm fa-yuh dee-stroyed by Dr. Chay-iz-wi-yuck," says Tammy (Sandra Dee). "When he isn't around, Ah git such a sweetly sa-yud emptiness that it jest cree-yups through the crannies of man beein'. It'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Florence Nightmare | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

The Mouse on the Moon. Like so many Son of and So-and-So Meets sequels, this offspring of 1959's The Mouse That Roared just barely squeaks by. Sorely missed is Peter Sellers, who in the triple role of Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick, Prime Minister Mountjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lunar Buffoonery | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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