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...have more than one wife. Family members band together to send the brilliant one to London to study and improve himself. But it is not always enough. For myself, I have to work as a kitchen helper in the evening. I'm in a lawyer's chamber in Middle Temple in the day. I study in between. It's the only work I can get-no one here will give you anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Host to Rebels | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...thrives-and gains weight-traveling; he has probably logged a greater mileage in and out of Canada in his three years in office than any previous Prime Minister. He dominates his Cabinet. He does not smoke, so no one else does in the Cabinet chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Three Years After | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...wind tunnel, air is first pumped out of a big vacuum chamber. Then a valve is opened and new air rushes in. On its way, it passes through a flaming arc using kilowatts enough to light a city. The air's temperature soars to 14,000° F., and it whams into samples of ablating material that behave as if they were part of a real nose cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back from Space | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums, all of them in stereophonic sound, which is ideally suited to the Dukes' brawling style. Are they ever tempted to play their Dixieland cool? "We don't go for that chamber stuff," says Frank. "It isn't jazz if it doesn't swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot from New Orleans | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...Founded three years ago by longtime Summer Resident Yehudi Menuhin, it now attracts front-rank musicians who are hand-picked by Yehudi. get no fee. In the 14th century Protestant Church of Saanen. the wealthy chalet set will this year hear Yehudi play with the Zurich Chamber Music Orchestra and his sister Hepzibah in a series devoted to works of Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn and Mozart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Musical Summer Guide to Europe | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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