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...worn the new lenses for as long as five months are enthusiastic. If they look straight ahead with eyes wide open, they see through the center lens. When they look down, the contact lens rises, so that they see through the outer circle. As they look up again, a blink slips the lens back into place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bifocal Contact Lenses | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow, thin-haired Kadar. without a blink at the sepulchral irony of his own words: ''The Hungarian people will never forget that Soviet troops liberated our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Garden Fresh | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...about two seconds TV3 had followed its programing perfectly. Ponderously it lifted itself off the pad-one foot, two feet, three feet. For one blink of an eye it seemed to stand still. A tongue of orange flame shot out from beneath the rocket, darted downwind, then billowed up the right side of TV3 into a fireball 150 feet high. "There it goes! There is an explosion!" an observation pilot cried into his radio. "Black smoke is now over the entire area-We do not see the satellite rocket-We do not see the rocket that is carrying our satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Death of TV-3 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...first blink, this seems to be one of those drab little British dramas in which an ill wind can be heard whistling across the raw clay of a new housing development. But there is an extra dimension: magic of sorts. At St. Bride's, a public school "of the second class," middle-aged Bill Mor wonders what to do with a life already half wasted in the chalky smog of history classrooms and hopelessly Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Philosophical Pixy | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...paraded on and off the stage in official Washington last week, one little scene-stealer grabbed his own private spotlight and held it right down to the last curtain. He was solemn little Prince Mashhur ibn Saud. 3½, son of the Saudi Arabian King, who had only to blink his liquid brown eyes to evoke cooings and mental chin-chucks across the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Little Prince | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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