Downhill Racing

The inventor of the Slalom race looks back on fifty years of skiing.

The Open Mind

Teacher, physicist, and administrator, J. Robert Oppenheimer was Director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos from March, 1943, to October, 1945. During those years he directed a force of nearly 6000 scientific and military employees under conditions which were seldom free from intense mental strain. Certainly he knows as much about the potential of atomic energy as any living American, and his urge for peace, his belief that we must be governed by open-mindedness in our international responsibility for the atomic bomb, are characteristic of what Secretary Stimson termed his "genius and leadership."


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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

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The Rise of New York City

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

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The End of the Mall Rat

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The Wonderful World of Capitalism

An adorable 1950s cartoon

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New Yorkers: Miss New York USA

An unconventional beauty queen.

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