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...reporters were accustomed to more stimulating press-conference re freshment. But if the Coca-Cola served at the Pentagon last week seemed bland, the ice that cooled it was something else again. That ice, announced Army scientists, was formed from snow that fell around the time that Christ was born. It had been taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: History on the Rocks | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...plenty of oil. In the end, there was not much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement and disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Commonwealth: Yes, But How? | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Holt, a personable but bland moderate backed by the Faubus organization, has run a lackluster campaign, lauding the state's progress under the Governor and invoking his own record as a former county prosecutor and state attorney general. Apart from a pledge of $500-a-year raises for teachers and a new traffic-safety program, he has offered little in the way of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: Within Reach | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

CACTUS FLOWER. In a sex farce from France, a seasoned playboy dentist (Barry Nelson) loves nothing more than to cut the mustard. His seemingly bland nurse (Lauren Bacall) puts an end to all that with relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 15, 1966 | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman, whose works are uncompromising vertical stripes, and Ad Reinhardt, whose severely dark-hued abstracts look almost jet black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Engineer's Esthetic | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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