Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S choice for Man of the Year rests between the American fighting man in Viet Nam, fighting in an unknown land and keeping the Communist threat at bay thousands of miles from home, and the black man, who is making his presence felt menacingly in the New World. It is the black...
...explanations were general, as befitted a group of well-educated engineers talking to college journalism and liberal arts majors. They were argued with the conviction of men who care about the results of this program, who look forward to their further encounters with the unknown. And none of them was as impressive as the technical miracle of the rocket streaking across the Florida sky towards its rendezvous with space, two minutes away...
...Corris should take the breaststroke against Army's John Landgraf, who will have to fight Bruce Fowler for second. The dive, though John Friedman looked against Springfield, is an unknown quantity...
...Conn, 58, is one of the nation's top authorities on a form of high blood pressure that used to be dumped into the catchall category of "cause unknown." Not until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves...
Sands of the Kalahari. A hired plane crashes and burns in the wastes of South-West Africa. Out of the flaming wreckage crawl six survivors: five men and a woman. Their plight unknown, they face an ordeal by sun, sand, hunger, thirst and, as it turns out, sexual desire. Who will live? Who will die? Who will prove his strength, or weakness? And who will get the girl...