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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Detroit now fits all its cars with seat-belt mountings, most drivers have proved reluctant to spend the few extra dollars to buy the belts themselves. Despite their proven value in reducing injury in case of accident, many owners just don't like the belts cluttering up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Buckling Down | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Outhouses & Spare Parts. Returning to the air the following night. Paar said: "Welcome to 'Beat the Press.' I have resumed nuclear testing." But throwing only a jab or two at the domestic enemy ("Some reporters write with crayons"), he settled down quickly to a chatty description of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Beat the Press | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Form on the Unknown. But children have to be taught to discover. One of Bruner's colleagues illustrates the problem with games like Twenty Questions. Premise: "A car had a bad accident. How did it happen? Ask me questions that can only be answered with a yes or no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Raise Man's Potential | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Paul Bembroy is by definition a non-hero. Having failed both as a lawyer and then as a farmer, he now runs a grain elevator for a prosperous friend in a lonely wheat town. He is competent and intelligent and resigned. His big, blonde wife has given him three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kansas Gothic | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Died. Monrad Charles ("Mon") Wallgren, 70, soft-spoken New Deal Democrat from Washington State, a onetime jeweler and U.S. amateur billiards champion who rose successively to Congressman (1932-1940), Senator (1940-44) and Governor (1944-48), went into political eclipse after he lost the 1948 gubernatorial race, was rejected by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 29, 1961 | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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