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After five years and $325 million worth of frustration, a snow-white Centaur rocket flashed its hoofs high over Cape Kennedy last week and galloped into orbit. As its Atlas booster fell away, the Centaur's own nozzles bloomed with a blue, barely visible flame: the high-energy signature of burning hydrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Hoofs of Hydrogen | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Lemmon plays the lecherous landlord of the Centaur Apartments, a fellow who rents only to women and has a key for every lock. The minute he sees the heroine he starts weaving Lemmoniacal schemes to lure her into his "sin bin," a flat with blood-red wallpaper, passion-pit living room, bed about the size of Luxembourg, and two Murphy violins that hideaway in a closet and at the flick of a switch pop out and play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Hits with Three Eros | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Plants on the Continent. After developing huge production facilities for making Churchill and Centaur tanks during World War II, Leyland realized that postwar Britain would be too small a market for its potential output. The company began developing export markets more diligently than most British manufacturers, sent its top executives around the world to meet customers and learn the conditions under which Leyland trucks would operate. Even with sports cars, the company has kept its sharp eye for local conditions; when it learned that the average age of the U.S. buyers of its TR3 was 47, it decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Wheels for the World | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10) 7. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 8. The Tin Drum, Grass (7) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. The Centaur, Updike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 24, 1963 | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...week) 2. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (4) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (3) 5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (9) 6. Triumph, Wylie (7) 7. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (5) 8. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (8) 9. The Centaur, Updike 10. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 10, 1963 | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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