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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, the lab's 96 staffers were infused with a save-the-world fervor. "PBL," promised a national ad campaign, "will use television as it's never been used before." But 25 Sunday-night telecasts later, PBL Executive Director Av Westin confessed despondently: "We took some deserved lumps for our brash we'll-show-you attitude. The year had its successes and failures, but it was not totally satisfactory from anybody's point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: Last Chance for PBL | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Galileo's 17th century use of the telescope to study the heavens spawned a host of moon stories. The Man in the Moone, written by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandoff, and published in 1638, offered a hero who was carried to his destination on a frail raft pulled by swans. Unaware of the vacuum in space, the traveler had no difficulty breathing on the trip, but he did find that his weight lessened as he left the earth. That remarkable scientific insight by Godwin preceded Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity by many years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage to the Moon, 1656, was the first novel to suggest the use of rockets for moon flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...World War I, a New England physics professor, Robert Goddard, had become interested in the use of rockets for studying meteorology. In 1919, he published a mathematical analysis of a meteorological rocket and pointed out that the same principle could be used to carry a charge of flash powder to the moon, where its ignition would be visible from earth. In 1926, he launched the world's first successful liquid-fuel rocket. It rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...subway system in New York is in revolting condition. To improve its state would reduce the incentive of those who have to suffer it today to abide by a value-system which suggests that each man try to improve his own position until he need no longer use the subway. No business organizations will ever give money to the State of New York to improve the subway system and it is not politically feasible for State government officials, even if they wanted to, to allocate the sums of money needed out of their tax revenues. That option does not exist...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Back to the Basics-Theoretics | 12/4/1968 | See Source »

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