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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space. The same procedure has been proposed for orbiting a radio telescope as large as a mile in diameter. "All we have to do," says Buehler, "is put these large structures into suitably compact packages on the ground and then kick them into space and let them unfold from solar heating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metallurgy: The Alloy That Remembers | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...nickel. Instead of going to the trouble of assembling structures under the sea, for example, Buehler suggests prefabricating them out of Nitinol set below seawater temperatures, cooling and compressing them and then airdropping them-still cooled -into the water. Raised above their transitional temperature by the water, they would unfold and remain rigid on the ocean bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metallurgy: The Alloy That Remembers | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...Schoenberg discovered how to organize atonal music by creating a new "scale" for each composition-an arbitrarily arranged series of the twelve chromatic tones-Webern extended the serial principle to such areas as rhythm and dynamics. Here he approached a state of total abstraction in which a piece would unfold entirely in accordance with the rules invented for it in advance by the composer, much as a computer responds to its mathematical programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Pianissimo Prophet | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...PRISONER (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Patrick McGoohan, formerly the weekly hero of Secret Agent, returns as a man incarcerated in a remote and mysterious community by unknown captors. His identity and the reasons for his imprisonment unfold as the series progresses. A summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show, Premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 31, 1968 | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...proposed reform is designed to assure that the reading be somehow done before the lectures unfold...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: A Proposal For Educational Reform: Reading Period First, Lectures After | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

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