Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rolling .sea. In the small, thick-shelled crew compartment were Lieut. Donald Walsh and Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard (son of the bathyscaphe's inventor, Auguste Piccard). At 24,000 ft. (more than 4½ miles) below the surface, the Trieste touched the greatest depth ever reached by man...
...directions, regardless of the ether wind. So scientists had to abandon the concept of the luminiferous ether. Light had nothing to travel in, and therefore could not be simple waves. Worse yet. the scientists were left with nothing by which they could measure absolute motion. For awhile man seemed to have lost his bearings in the universe...
...materialism of modern technological civilization has been especially serious in Latin America because of the nature of Spanish Catholicism. "Traditionally, Spanish Catholicism has been highly spiritual, almost mystic. It has never been, as we could put it, an 'Incarnation Catholicism' -it has never been very concerned with man's life in this world." The greatest danger to the church is not from Communism, Protestantism or spiritism as such, but from a Catholicism that is notably "weak in confronting modern progress . . . Since Hispanic Catholicism doesn't seem to be able to make the continent suitable for normal...
...British Broadcasting Corp., replacing 60-year-old Sir Ian Jacob. Going from Oxford to Fleet Street in 1933, Carleton Greene was a Daily Telegraph correspondent until 1940, when he joined BBC to wage psychological warfare. BBC staffers are confident that their new 6½ ft. "D.G." is the man to hold up the BBC side in 1964, when the BBC's charter and the mandate of the ITV commercial network both expire...
...Week presented a chilling, full-length production (two hours) of Alexander' Knox's The Closing Door, excellently played by Dane Clark and Kim Hunter. With some $200,000, NBC's Startime presented Audie Murphy in an hour-long condensation of Mel Dinelli's The Man, worked up little interest and no suspense. Meanwhile, pointing a TV moral, Producer Hubbell Robinson went on feasting on his overall $15 million budget for 39 Startime hours, but WNTA's Play of the Week was fighting for its life. Despite its record of first-rate drama (TIME...