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...deputy project scientist. "What has remained unseen to this point is going to turn out even better." For as it swung past Uranus, Voyager took thousands of pictures and gathered reams of scientific data, accumulating information faster than its systems could process and transmit it toward the earth. The unsent information, stored on magnetic tape, was to be gradually beamed to J.P.L. over the next several days. In these transmissions, scientists expected to find, among other things, images of more tiny moons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Crescendo of Discovery | 2/3/1985 | See Source »

...lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire a music reviewer who knows what he's talking about?" This time, though, the letter went unsent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rose, File It. H.S.T. | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

Timmy tells the story 15 years later in the form of episodic memoirs and unsent messages to Maryann. By now, he is a physicist himself, but a nonfunctioning one, unable to reconcile the remembered excitement, the sense of possibility at Los Alamos with the meanness of technology in the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before the Fall | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...Church. After Peale's minister father died at 85, his stepmother Mary said, "Your father left a message for you ... He said, 'Tell Norman his message is right . . . just put his trust in Jesus Christ and never quit.' " Peale handed his wife his letter of resignation, unsent. "Here," he said. "Tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Approving Fascist editors exulted, last week, that each unsent greeting will conserve to the nation "not less than half an ounce of high grade paper pulp," and will release the price of stamp or telegraph fees for "more constructive expenditures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Waste Not, Greet Not | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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