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...Bedford Incident. Assigned to track Soviet submarine movements in the North Atlantic, the destroyer U.S.S. Bedford is laden with detecting devices, rocket-booster torpedoes and predatory instincts. "A floating IBM machine," says Medico Martin Balsam, who wishes he were back in the Reserves. Bedford's crewmen look more like science majors than sea dogs. They don't play poker, they don't go on sick call. Furthermore, Balsam grumbles: "Can you picture any of these guys singing Anchors Aweighl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man the Pushbuttons! | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Beauty v. Need. The atmosphere of conflict, both inside and outside the ranks, is as natural to conservation as the scent of balsam. For opposed to every conservationist cause there is always the need of those from whom the land is being saved. Steel manufacturers, for example, have discovered that the most efficient sites for their plants are near water transportation. One such location is the Indiana Dunes, a strip of glacier-formed beach, sand dunes and marshland running along Indiana's Lake Michigan coast from Gary to Michigan City. For 50 years conservationists have seethed as the dunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Flight from Folly | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...their credentials. Next it was 155 children, most of them Negroes, from Washington settlement houses. Lyndon joined them for a puppet show in the East Room, was greeted by one boy with an airy "Hi, Johnson"; later, he escorted them to the Blue Room to see an 18-ft. balsam fir Christmas tree, thence to the State Dining Room for ice cream and eggnog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gracious Host | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...time of year again for Canada's best-known industry, and growers were busy cutting the 15 million Christmas trees that they will sell this year. However, there is a bit of strain in the merriment this year for Canada's exporters of pine, spruce, Douglas and balsam firs. Reason: artificial trees are making steady inroads into the lucrative Christmas tree market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: And a Profit In A Polyvinyl Tree | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

SUSPENSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). A new dramatic series about men who risk their lives. The first episode stars Arthur Kennedy and Martin Balsam as New York Police Department bomb-squad experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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