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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place, NASA's critics pointed out, ultraviolet radiation accounts for no more than a tenth of thz radiation from a galaxy. Thus, even a large increase in this component would not greatly affect a galaxy's overall brightness. Besides, modern astronomers always compensate for the "red shift" of light when viewing distant galaxies and quasars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deflating NASA's Universe | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Executives of Fantus Co. have helped so many companies find sites for new plants or offices that they have built the world's largest industrial location service. Last week they concluded that they have been in the wrong place themselves. They decided to move Fantus' headquarters out of Manhattan to South Orange, NJ.-following such firms as General Foods, American Can and PepsiCo, which have shifted large operations outside the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Who Can Afford Manhattan? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...York City, says Fantus President Leonard Yaseen, is just no place to work. Yaseen gives it a low rating for reasons as varied as crime, air pollution, strikes, employees' attitudes toward work and operating costs. He cites high and rising city income and occupancy taxes, as well as office rents of up to $15 a square foot in midtown Manhattan v. $7 in the suburbs. Clerical workers commonly put in only 35 hours a week in Manhattan v. 40 in some nearby towns, and their turnover rate averages 34% a year, against 15% in Stamford, Conn. Worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Who Can Afford Manhattan? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Secret Meeting. Since the Europeans had made the victory possible by agreeing not to buy South African gold in the first place, the U.S. could hardly refuse their request to ease the boycott. For its part, South Africa was ready to sue for peace. Its 1969 trade deficit reached an estimated $700 million by October, largely because of imports of machinery needed to modernize its economy. Unless the South African government could sell more gold at a good price, it would have to either 1) pursue risky policies of austerity and deflation during an election year, or 2) restrict imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold: Fixing a Floor | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...football fans anxiously await the battles between the N.F.L. and A.F.L. divisional champions, Washington fans can relax and contemplate their bright future. The Redskins, who had not enjoyed a winning season since 1955, had by week's end fashioned a 7-4-2 record to clinch a second-place finish behind Dallas in the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division. Good as that was, Lombardi was not satisfied: "Let's not get all worked up about this team. We still have a long way to go, and a lot of areas need shoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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