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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearing, he pointed to deep ruts in the black soil and whispered: "That's as big a buck track as I've ever seen." As he sat statue-still behind a huge uprooted maple, a woodpecker's tattoo shattered the intense quiet like small arms fire. Overhead, squadrons of Canada geese flew south like dark arrows in the sky. They were the only signs of life the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Overhead payments for research contracts will be about the same as last year. In terms of past performance, however, that leveling-off represents a drop in Faculty income. Until last year's cutback on government research, overhead payments had been steadily rising by at least ten per cent annually...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Dean Ford Forecasts Large Faculty Deficit | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...psyched-up Penn squad charged out on the field after halftime and once more dominated play. At 3:13 of the third period. Penn's Bruno V? smashed a long free kick toward the Crimson net. Goalie Meyors spun and watched the ball hit the overhead crossbar and come down...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Booters Hand Penn First Loss of Season | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

Even the.departure from the moon will be somewhat different. Once they rejoin Yankee Clipper 69 miles overhead, Conrad and Bean will send Intrepid's ascent stage crashing into the moon rather than into a lunar orbit. This will eliminate a potential hazard to future lunar navigation as well as cause enough of a thud to give earthbound seismologists a good calibration test of the new lunar seismometer. Next, the astronauts will shoot a series of closeup photographs of the moon, using both ordinary and infra-red film to help NASA planners pick out landing sites for the remaining eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back to the Moon | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...turns into a dresser and her Dad (Arthur Lowe) into a parrot, while Penelope herself (Rita Tushingham) takes 17 months to give birth to one baby and about 37 seconds to deliver herself of a second. All this goes on while the police (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) fly overhead in a rusted-out patrol car suspended from the end of a helium balloon. A former officer of the volunteer army (Spike Milligan) hides in a bomb shelter, calling out,"Say, have they dropped it yet?" Nothing makes any kind of sense at all -but then neither does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Shortest War in History | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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