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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alamos men are already speculating beyond Mohole. They feel that their drill can be put to work some day to tap the geothermal energy that abounds deep in the earth, causing hot springs and geysers. As for immediate uses, the inventors are uncertain, but they answer at least one request a day for information about their molybdenum bit from miners and wildcatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering: Getting There the Hot Way | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Moments later, birds' wings flutter above the benighted churchmen, who gape at the charred pillar, already uncertain whether they have incinerated a heretic, or a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Stake in History | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...left the field shouting and yelling; after dinner the pep rally left everyone a bit uncertain. It seemed almost unplanned. Yovicsin told the student body the game depended on them, since the team was ready. O'Brien introduced the team, one by one. Then we drove off to the Framingham Motor Inn to spend the night (late parietals and noisy parties the night before the Yale game make both the team and the coaches anxious for our sleep. So the team moves to a $20-a-night motel...

Author: By John Hoffman, | Title: Yale Week on the Varsity Football Team: A Player Describes Pre-Game Preparations | 2/9/1965 | See Source »

M.I.T. is one of nine colleges which currently have teams entered in the AAU-sanctioned Knights of Columbus games scheduled for the Boston Garden Saturday. How many of the nine will stay in if the NCAA changes its "policy" to an "order" this week is uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. Opposes Boycott Of AAU's Track Meets | 1/12/1965 | See Source »

...Lyndon Johnson stood before a joint session of Congress, the shock and mourning over John Kennedy's assassination had not yet passed. Johnson's State of the Union speech a year ago, for all its high promise, was still a message from an interim President in an uncertain hour. This week Johnson was ready to report on a Union that he himself had guided during 13 remarkable months. He was now President in his own right, with an overwhelming victory at the polls behind him and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress -68% in the Senate, 68% in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Union & the World | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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