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Con Ed's ad took on dramatic meaning last week when seven big power feeder lines, strained beyond capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Lights Out | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

To Psychiatrist Satten and his Topeka research team, it seemed that the murderous petty officer-listed in their records as "Thomas"-had temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: And Sudden Murder | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Explorer IV went into a 51° orbit on July 26. It carried sophisticated instruments that Van Allen's laboratory had provided to distinguish between "hard" and "soft" radiation, and shielded Geiger counters designed to count radiation intensity at extremely high levels without blacking out. On Aug. 27 the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reach into Space | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

From Sack to Slurry. Though his friends scoffed that the substance would never be worth much, Gilson formed the St. Louis Gilsonite Co. By wagon, then by railroad, the company hauled out sacks of Gilsonite, as the substance came to be known, to use in coloring black paints, waterproofing roofs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: New Industry for the West | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. By Yma Sumac, 35, deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian singer with a four-octave voice: Moises Vivanco, 38, who, in spite of his infidelities and an eye-blacking free-for-all with her last month, will continue as her manager and arranger; after 14 years of marriage, one child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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