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...word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ivan Reads | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...grey stylized panels, columns and stairs of the palace facade, the drama of man's willful pride goes on unmuted. But the play's hypnotic center is Aspassia Papathanassiou as she seethes with mother hate and sways before high winds of woe. As primordially pagan as a bolt of lightning hurled from the hand of Zeus, her Electra consumes the stage with quenchless fire. To see it is to see a classic become a conflagration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Heroes, Gods & Women | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material. There is not a seam to be seen, or to cut, bind or pucker. "The first big fashion bolt of the season," cried the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, and its makers were ecstatically suggesting that the day was not far off when all milady's garments, from girdles to gowns, would be made of seamless moldable cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Underneath, Underwear | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...House added $448,840,000 to continue purchase of the bombers and to step up study of the highly controversial 2,000-m.p.h. B-70, which is now in mock-up form. In addition, the bill speeds up development of the 1,000-mile, nuclear-tipped Sky-bolt missile, which will increase the punch and range of the B-52. The bill will also keep nearly 200 of the Air Force's 1,500 bombers in the air at all times, armed and ready to attack, while half of the remaining planes are on ground alert (15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE DEFENSE BILL: Flexibility for the Atomic Age | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...used as his base of power. Happily, Ben-Gurion turned his thoughts to a new Cabinet that would probably include most of the now chas tened politicians who had dared oppose him on Lavon. The outcome represented something less than judicial fairness to Lavon, who may now bolt the party and try to fight Ben-Gurion on the stump at the next election. But it served as notice that the 74-year-old Prime Minister is not only running Israel, but controlling the line of succession as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Resign & Conquer | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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