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...North Shore friends at a cocktail party. The savage flees to dwell in the jungle in earnest; the girl follows on the wings of love. Departing civilization in soulful triumph, she surrenders herself to life and love in a cave-even as native bearers carry into the jungle her bathtub, her refrigerator, her television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Sad Savage | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...Americans are taught to defer to Moslem sensibilities. Though the government permits Aramco's Americans to have Christian religious services, it forbids display of the Cross. Imports of whisky, beer and wine are banned, but the men who can refine crude oil have little trouble in distilling bathtub gin and Scotch, known locally as "the white" and "the brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Obliging Goliath | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

When she got to the White House in 1850, ex-Schoolmarm Abigail Fillmore was shocked to find not even a Bible in the place. Pausing only to put in the mansion's first bathtub, the new First Lady installed its first library. But in succeeding years, people kept pinching White House books. Herbert Hoover found the shelves bare. Booksellers chipped in to make up the loss, but Harry Truman scoffed that his own collection upstairs outnumbered the official one downstairs. The Kennedys, soon after arrival, resolved to put in "a working library for the present President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libraries: For Well-Read Presidents | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Last weekend, on a day's visit to Glen Welby, the 800-acre family cattle farm near Middleburg, Va., Philip Leslie Graham, 48, sat on the edge of a bathtub, leaned against a 28-gauge shotgun and fired a single shell through his right temple. He died instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: A Discontented Man | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...added five more models to his bathtub navy, including the Rhodes 19 (a 19-footer designed by Architect Philip Rhodes), which, at $3,000, may eventually outsell the Day Sailer. His company sold 250 boats and took in $300,000 in 1958. This year, he expects to sell 1,800 boats. The only trouble with all this growth is that apart from a modest $12,000 profit the first year, O'Day Corp. has lost money every year since, largely because O'Day knew a lot about sailing selling but less about business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boating: The Bathtub Navy | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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