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From that decision stemmed the explosive series of events by which 1959 would be long remembered?and which made Eisenhower the Man of the Year. On the morning of July 11, President Eisenhower drafted a formal proposal that Khrushchev visit the U.S. and suggested that the President travel to the Soviet Union. The letter was flown to New York by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy and Deputy Assistant Secretary Foy Kohler, placed in the hands of the Soviet Union's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, about to return to Russia after a U.S. tour. It was kept...
Life has existed on earth for about one billion years. Gold points out. It began as very simple forms of microscopic size, has developed slowly until only now is it reaching a level of physical development and technological competence that will allow descendants of those microbes to travel outside their own solar system. Certainly within the next few hundred years, he holds, man will be visiting planets of other solar systems. "Most of these planets will have unsuitable conditions for us to live there freely, but if they have no life on them, it is still possible that they...
After a billion years, in the Gold hypothesis, the seeded planet may have evolved creatures intelligent enough to travel deeper into space, visiting fertile but virgin planets and seeding them in turn with adaptable microbes. In fact, this contamination by life is probably the normal beginning of life on any planet, including the earth. "Space travelers," says Gold, "may have visited the earth a billion years ago, and from their abandoned garbage forms of life have proliferated so that the microbes will soon have another agent (space-traveling humans) capable of spreading them farther afield...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, will take a leave of absence for the Fall Term next year to attend the summer Olympics in Rome. Bolles was notified during the Christmas recess that his request to travel abroad with his wife and daughter had been granted by the Corporation...
Macmillan will stop first in Ghana, travel through western and central Africa, and wind up in the Union of South Africa...