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...aging process can be checked, but at high cost. Near Detroit, senile Long Lake, which has silted in spots to within 2 ft. of the surface, is being dredged to 14 ft.-at a cost of $100,000 for a lake only 146 acres in size. Outside Indianapolis, Bacon Swamp, which once was a lake, is getting similar dredging treatment. Algaecides are also helpful, says Frey, and so is bubbling-in oxygen during a lake's stagnant summer months. But such processes are expensive, and practical only on small lakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dying Lakes | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...Albert L., and their eight-year-old daughter Barbara Louise. Cardinals flitted through the gigantic water oaks and pecan trees on the mansion lawn, and a squad of six Negro trusty prisoners in white uniforms trimmed the grass while the Governor attacked a plate of muffins and bacon. Suddenly a furor arose in the yard. "They've found the horned toad," cried Tuti. "I hope they don't kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Crisis in Civil Rights | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

Eliot House: John A. Hodges, Arthur N. Holcombe II, Michael C. Janeway, William S. Swinford, Christopher Wadsworth, Donald D. Bacon, Keith H. Basso, Theodore S. Halashy, Stephen B. Feis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ushers Selected | 5/24/1961 | See Source »

Ultimate Sound. Bronx-born Sidney Frey's resounding horizons are limited only by the present state of public taste. Recently he reluctantly abandoned the sound of a belching baby for fear that it might offend potential customers, and he ruled out frying bacon and tooth brushing as not sufficiently dramatic. But he hopes soon to record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Noise Merchant | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Shepard himself had already put in even longer hours of preparation. That morning, he had been awakened at i a.m. After a shower and shave he had break fast: orange juice, eggs, tea and a y-oz. filet mignon wrapped in bacon was characteristic of the substantial but lowresidue diet that astronauts stick to when about to make a flight. After eating, Shepard got an elaborate physical examination. Everything was normal; so he moved to the suiting room to get into his space gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Freedom's Flight | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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